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Eastern Australia facing energy supply shortages

energy supply, electricity prices, energy shortage

Source: AAP

Eastern Australia is dealing with more power shortage problems and potential outages could strike in Tasmania and South Australia


Highlights
  • A price cap was set in place across large parts of the country because soaring wholesale electricity prices breached a threshold.
  • In the short term, experts say getting the coal plants back online as soon as possible is imperative.
  • For now, households and businesses are being asked to conserve power where they can and brace for the bill to come.

The regulator has put a price cap of 300-dollars per megawatt-hour 

 

 

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