On Sunday 13 October, there was a system wide outage which meant that power was out in the Alice Springs region.

Crews responded immediately and critical power was initially restored to priority areas including Alice Springs Hospital. Power was completely restored at approximately 10:47pm.

An investigation into the cause of the network outage is underway.

I have made it clear to the CEOs of Territory Generation and Power and Water Corporation that this is unacceptable. 

Territorians deserve a stable and secure power system, and that is why I have called for an independent review into this incident.

The independent review will identify and investigate any system wide issues that led to this problem occurring and the adequacy of responses, both short and long term.

Media Contact: Paige Nguyen 0428 727 244
paige.nguyen@nt.gov.au