Loy Yang A power outage a ‘glimpse of the future’ without coal

Nationals MP Keith Pitt says a major outage at Victoria's biggest power station Loy Yang A represents a “glimpse of the future for Victoria” without coal-fired power. Approximately 500,000 households especially on the surf coast west of Geelong and in the inner west of the state have suffered power blackouts. Powerlines in Anakie, just north of Geelong, tripped and may have caused Loy Yang A and the four units in AGL’s facility to go offline. AGL is currently investigating the cause, and the units had been down since 2:15pm AEST, but would be providing hourly updates. “That is a big power station and that is a big outage and it’s a big blackout,” Mr Pitt told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “Welcome to a glimpse of the future for Victoria – if you want to know what it looks like without coal-fired power – this is it."