The Latest Breaking News from Ausgrid

Ausgrid says an underground cabling fault caused the outage.

A decision was made on Friday afternoon.

Australian consumers are painfully aware of the energy cost crisis. And from July 1, electricity bills are set to rise by a further 20-25% across South Australia, New South Wales, south-east Queensland and Victoria. The increases will add to cost-of-living pressures across households and small businesses.

The outage was caused by a feeder fault.

The first of 30,000 electric vehicle chargers mounted on power poles has launched in Sydney as part of a plan to help apartment dwellers power up their cars.

A controversial plan to charge families with solar panels for power they feed back into the grid has drawn new criticism

Soaring energy costs are a major factor in Australia’s cost-of-living crisis. The conventional wisdom is people will reduce their energy use in response to rising prices – and this may be the case for the most vulnerable households. However, our research published today suggests rising costs of living are more…

This year the federal government will begin rolling out 400 community batteries to store excess energy produced by households — an initiative that is expected to prompt an uptick in solar panel purchases.

Mature trees on Council, Laman and Dawson streets were chopped last week, leaving large holes in the centres.