
There is a consensus among key players that last night’s South Australia-wide power failure was caused when a massive storm knocked out 23 transmission towers servicing Adelaide’s north.
Key energy bodies and energy market experts say the entire state lost power because the equivalent of a system-wide short-circuit switch was triggered by the damaged power lines.
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