Inquiry coming after outback failures leave 20k in dark

Premier Chris Minns has promised to uncover how outback communities in western NSW were left without power. Video by AAP

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00:00The emergency services are working to re-establish connection via Starlink in the coming hours.

00:05I want to make it clear that when you have a regional remote community,

00:11there must be redundancy power in place, there must be a backup generator in place.

00:15And Roy was the first person to tell me that Transgrim is responsible for generating power

00:21and transmitting it to Broken Hill. One of the two gas fired generators has been inoperable

00:28since November. The second one broke down five o'clock yesterday afternoon. That's clearly not

00:34good enough. Our immediate responsibility is to get electricity back on in Broken Hill but

00:38straight after that we'll be ensuring that there's an inquiry as to how this happened

00:42and so that regional communities know the power will be available when there is a natural emergency.