Victoria's power supply faces potential risks as vital firefighting equipment used to combat fires at major power plants and coal mines in the Latrobe Valley is undergoing repairs. The outage comes amidst severe bushfire conditions across Australia, raising concerns about the state's energy security.
Firefighters have warned that Victoria ’s power supply could be at risk and extra pressure placed on the national grid as crucial equipment deployed to respond to mine and power station fires in the Latrobe Valley undergoes repairs.
It comes as firefighters battle multiple bushfires across several states, and authorities warn people to brace for “catastrophic” bushfire conditions in Victoria’s Wimmera region and “extreme” conditions elsewhere in western Victoria and South Australia on Boxing Day.Its primary purpose is to provide rapid response to fires at Yallourn, Loy Yang A and Loy Yang B power plants, their coal, and the transmission infrastructure connecting them to the grid, as well as the interconnector to Tasmania that terminates in the region. Since December 6, however, it has been offline after an internal seal ruptured. United Firefighters Union delegate Matt Lawrence said firefighters would be placed in unsafe conditions responding to coal fires without the aerial pumper. Loy Yang A has a brown coal mine – the largest in the country – as well as a power station on site. It supplies about 30 per cent of Victoria’s energy requirements, while Loy Yang B’s power station supplies about 20 per cent. Yallourn power station provides 22 per cent of Victoria’s energy needs and provides about 8 per cent of Australia’s national electricity market.Lawrence, who is also the fire station officer at Traralgon and an operational firefighter, said it was taking “far too long” to get access to safe and working vehicles. “Firefighters would like to see our vehicles safer to use and reliable so we can protect the community because at the moment, with unreliable vehicles, it can make it hard for us to do that, and we’re seeing that across the state,” he said. “Obviously, is a high-risk environment, in the sense of supplying a large amount of power to the state. It’s high-consequence, too, certainly, if there was a large fire, in terms of what it means for the stat
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