Article: Vic: Power companies in power demand phone hook up


AAP General News (Australia)
11-28-2000
Vic: Power companies in power demand phone hook up

MELBOURNE, Nov 28 AAP - Victorian power generators, transmission companies and key
users convened urgent talks today after the state's power capacity was cut ahead of a
forecast heatwave today.

A spokeswoman for NEMMCO, the national electricity transmission company, said the phone
hook-up this morning revealed no major problems.

Victoria's largest power generator, Loy Yang Power in the Latrobe Valley, has had its
generating capacity halved by the unexpected shut-down of a generator on Sunday.

The unscheduled shut-down occurred at the same time as another of the coal-fired power
plant's four 500 ...

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