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Palmyra, East Fremantle and Bicton
30 June 2026, 21:081 h 02 min
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To do: Check your meter box: if the main switch or an RCD is off, unplug your appliances and switch it back on.
To do: It trips again? Switch the circuit breakers back on one by one to find the faulty circuit.
To do: Do your neighbours have power? If so, the fault is in your home: call a licensed electrician.
To do: Whole street out? Check Western Power's outages page or call 13 13 51.

SourceYour meter box

Western Power network

westernpower.com.auUpdated 28/09/2026

Western Power, owned by the WA government, runs the transmission and distribution lines of the South West Interconnected System, outside the National Electricity Market. It sells no electricity: most households buy it from Synergy. About 70% of the Perth metro network is underground.

Electricity network

Activities: TransmissionDistributionMetering
Customers: 1.22 M· connections, June 2025
Smart meters: 700,000+ advanced meters, June 2024
Outage time: 184.8 min· normalised SAIDI 2024-25
Outages: 1.94· normalised SAIFI per customer, 2024-25
Network length: 97,309 km· 31,405 km underground, June 2025
Coverage: South West WA

Perth
Mandurah
Bunbury
Geraldton
Albany
Kalgoorlie
Kalbarri

255,064 km² from Kalbarri to Albany and east to Kalgoorlie, plus 317 stand-alone power systems in regional areas (June 2025).

SourceWestern Power · distribution performance reporting form 2024-25 Western Power · annual reliability and power quality report 2024-25 Western Power · annual report 2025 Western Power · annual report 2024 ERA · Western Power AA5 third annual progress report, June 2026 AEMC · National Electricity Market

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