Push to weatherproof Australia’s electricity grid as 77,000 still without power in Victoria
by Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#6JMAT)
State's energy minister calls for national approach to energy system resilience as climate change causes more extreme weather events
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Victoria's energy minister will push for a national approach to weatherproof the electricity grid, with about 77,000 properties still without power after a deadly storm brought down transmission lines.
Lily D'Ambrosio said the storm, which swept through the state on Tuesday afternoon and resulted in the death of a dairy farmer in South Gippsland, has caused one of the largest outage events in the state's history".
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