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Victoria’s power outage could have been far worse. Can we harden the grid against extreme weather?

  • Written by Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University

Last week’s destructive storm took Victoria by surprise. As winds of up to 150 kilometres an hour raced through the state, transmission towers near Geelong toppled and the grid went into chaos.

At its worst, almost one in five Victorian homes were left without electricity while the main transmission system came close to collapse.

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