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To do: Check your switchboard: if the main switch or a safety switch has tripped, unplug appliances and reset it.
To do: It trips again? Switch the circuit breakers back on one by one to find the faulty circuit.
To do: Neighbours have power and a switch keeps tripping? The fault is in your home: call a licensed electrician.
To do: Switchboard all on? Check Essential Energy's outage map, then report the outage on 13 20 80.

Essential Energy network

essentialenergy.com.auUpdated 28/09/2026

Essential Energy, owned by the NSW government, runs the electricity distribution network across 95% of New South Wales and part of southern Queensland. It does not sell power: customers pay a retailer. Its Essential Water arm supplies water and sewerage in Broken Hill.

Electricity network

Activities: DistributionWater
Customers: 900,000+· electricity customers, 2024-25
Smart meters: 500,542 meters, June 2025, fitted by retailers
Outage time: 230 min· SAIDI 2024-25, excl. major event days
Outages: 1.61· SAIFI per customer, 2024-25
Network length: 194,000 km· 11,000 km underground, 2024-25
Coverage: Regional NSW

Coffs Harbour
Port Macquarie
Tamworth
Dubbo
Orange
Wagga Wagga
Albury
Broken Hill

737,000 km² with part of southern Queensland. 4.9 customers per km of line, the lowest density in the National Electricity Market.

SourceEssential Energy · annual report 2024-25 AEMC · smart meter rollout final rule, November 2024

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