The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) said a fire that ripped through a New South Wales power station on Saturday will not affect the electricity supply, already snarled by an energy crisis in the country’s east.
Power supply in Australia’s heavily populated east has been stretched since mid-May as around 25% of the market’s 23,000 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired capacity has been offline for maintenance or unplanned outages.
The blaze resulted from a mechanical failure in a redundant transformer, fire authorities said, with more than 60 firefighters working to bring it under control.
More than 10,000 litres (2,600 gallons) of oil caught fire, and it would likely take several days to extinguish the fire, news website Nine reported.
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