Fire in TransGrid's Bayswater Substation in the Hunter Valley: four-state blackouts 10:45am 2 July 2009: all four units crash



First 3 of 3 paragraphs shown Four-state NEM blackouts 10:45am 2 July 2009 were connected to a fire at in equipment at TransGrid's Bayswater Substation in the Hunter Valley, causing all of the generators at Macquarie Generation's Bayswater Power Station to trip.
All four units trip: TransGrid said in a release "This fault caused a very small fire in the immediate location of the equipment and the fire was extinguished by TransGrid staff before the fire brigade arrived at the scene". It was a blackout for much of the Central Coast, Western Sydney and  South Coast near Wollongong - about 100,000
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Article in: [Energy User][Electricity Week][Energy Daily][EWN Publishing]
Article Tags: [ Energy - General ][ Consumer Issues ][ Energy - Electricity ][ 120kVA up ][ NEM Electricity Analysis ]


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