Peta Credlin issues electricity warning after Victoria blackouts

Sky News host Peta Credlin warns Victoria doesn’t have enough electricity after thousands of people in the state were left without power on Tuesday night. Parts of regional Victoria and Melbourne on Tuesday copped severe weather which brought down power lines, leaving hundreds of thousands of Victorians without power. Premier Jacinta Allan blamed the incident on an “extreme weather event” which no one could have anticipated. “Leaving aside her blame-shifting for a moment, we should be able to expect redundancy is built into any first-world power grid, so that the loss of a couple of towers doesn't cause a crisis. As it did in Victoria yesterday,” Ms Credlin said. “However, it seems that even before some transmission towers went down, the energy market operator was already negotiating emergency supplies to cover the late afternoon peak, and that about 90,000 customers had already been cut off.”