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MINISTER FOR URBAN SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION N0.517

Electricity Service Interruptions

Mr Kaine - asked the Minister for Urban Services:

In the period 1 July 1990 to 30 June 1991 (1) How many blackouts or major breaks of service occurred by suburb?

(2) What were the three reasons overall for these electricity service interruptions?

Mr Connolly - the answer to the Members question is as follows:

The statistics relating to electricity blackouts are attached. Figures are tabulated on a suburb by suburb basis, and placed under the following categories:

Equipment related

Caused by system failure ie cable joints, fuses blowing etc.

Weather Related

Due to winds causing tree/branch interference with lines, plus damage by lighming.

MaintenancelTree cutting

Planned system outages for plant construction/maintenance and outages for tree cutting contractors.

Others

Damage caused to equipment by motor vehicles, construction plant, vandalism, bird nests, fires etc.

These statistics do not take into account either the length of the outage or the number of customers affected by each outage. ACTEW keeps management statistics on these indicators, but not on a suburb by suburb basis.

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