PHOTO: Roy Butler called on a State inquiry into electricity supply/certainty after the Broken Hill incident which left the community without power for a fortnight. Image: Supplied.
Communities with a single electricity supply line will be watching closely as a Parliamentary Inquiry opens into the failure of the system in Broken Hill last October.
On October 17, storms wiped out power lines that supplied the Silver City in what would culminate in two weeks without secure power for the 20,000 residents.
Multiple inquiries have followed, with concerns that a lack of maintenance on back-up generators exacerbated the crisis…