25 May 2021
Around 375,000 homes and businesses across South-East Queensland lost power on Tuesday afternoon, in a major energy system incident and amid reports of an “explosion” at the Callide C coal fired power station near Biloela in central Queensland.
The outages extended from the Gold Coast, across parts of Brisbane and north to Caboolture. Outages had also extended to parts of Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Bundaberg and Gladstone. Most homes have had power restored within two hours of the announcement.
CS Energy, which owns Callide, tweeted that there were reports of a fire in one of the turbines at the power station, forcing all three of its units offline.
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Subscriber only Queensland should prepare for rolling blackouts and not use electricity between now and 9pm where possible, the Australian Energy Market Operator has warned. It comes after power was cut to hundreds of thousands of Queensland and northern NSW homes and businesses after explosions at Callide Power Station in central Queensland. A total of 477,000 homes and businesses across the states were impacted after multiple explosions around 2pm, with most of the outages lasting until about 4pm. The Australian Energy Market Operator, in its latest statement, said there was not enough power to meet demand following the incident at the Callide Power station, shaking the reliability of the system.
Almost half a million homes and businesses across Queensland and northern NSW were without power after major explosions at Callide Power Station. There are reports of chaos on roads and people trapped in high-rise elevators.
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