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South Australia suffers state-wide power failure as storm hits

28th September 2016

By: Bloomberg

  

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SYDNEY – The entire state of South Australia has lost electricity after severe winds and storms lashed the region, according to SA Power Networks.

Australia’s fourth-largest state by area is currently without power and there is “no upstream supply from the transmission network,” the distributor said in a Twitter posting.

The national Bureau of Meteorology earlier issued a severe weather warning, noting the risks from a vigorous cold front moving across the state. It predicted winds averaging up to 75 km/h, with gusts of up to 140 km/h.

There “may be outages for an extended period", State Premier Jay Weatherill said in a separate posting on Twitter.

SA Power Networks is 51%-owned by Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings and Power Assets Holdings, while the remaining 49% is owned by Spark Infrastructure Group, according to the distributor’s website.

Edited by Bloomberg

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