Western Australia’s energy system has been hit by a breakdown at Chevron’s Wheatstone domestic gas plant, causing worries about potential blackouts during the height of summer.
Western Australia’s energy supply system has been thrown into crisis by the unexpected breakdown of Chevron’s Wheatstone domestic gas plant, causing the state government to scramble into action to co-ordinate extra supplies from storage and reduce consumption from some industrial customers.
“Increased production of stored gas as well as reduced consumption by industry means gas supplies have continued to meet demand,” he said.The crisis comes amid heightened tensions around domestic gas supply in WA, after the DomGas Alliance – a group of major gas users –The situation is adding extra heat into
The Australian Energy Market Operator said it is aware of the outage, which it expects to be “short term in nature”.
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