Actions from the independent Network Outage Review into the 2024 severe storm event have already had a positive impact on outage recovery and disaster resilience.
In late 2024 Tasmania experienced a severe storm event as a series of cold fronts crossed the state, causing significant damage to the electricity network.
An independent Network Outage Review was led by Rhys Edwards to investigate storm response processes. The final report was published in 2025 and made 19 recommendations, with 11 applicable to TasNetworks and eight applicable to the Tasmanian Government.
Acting Minister for Energy and Renewables, Guy Barnett, said all recommendations were accepted.
"Work to address all of those recommendations is underway or complete," Minister Barnett said.
"As part of the review, the Essential Services Outage Grant was introduced. It supports low-income households impacted by outages of greater than five days, providing support to households affected by prolonged disruptions to essential services, such as power, water, or sewerage.
"More than 220 TasNetworks staff have undergone training on incident management, and on fault response.
"It has been pleasing to see the response of TasNetworks towards its Post Incident Review process.
"TasNetworks is learning from the event and improving its emergency response to better support the Tasmanian community."
Learnings and improvements from the 2024 storms have already strengthened TasNetworks' response to bushfires and lightning storm outages in the past 18 months. This was particularly evident through storm recovery timeframes in 2025.
TasNetworks CEO, Seán McGoldrick, said Tasmanians deserve safe, clean, reliable and affordable electricity.
"Our people restored power to almost 200,000 Tasmanians during the August/September 2024 storms. It was an impressive response for a natural disaster of that scale - unprecedented in living Tasmanian memory.
"While the independent Network Outage Review concluded that our people performed 'extremely well' and showed 'a high level of commitment', we've also worked hard to improve our customer communication, training and technology in emergencies.
"We never stop listening and seeking improvements. TasNetworks is now more prepared, practiced and precise than the business that confronted the unprecedented storms of 2024."
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