Provider Western Power said pole top fires can occur during light drizzling rain or misty damp conditions when a combination of dust and pollution builds up to create paths or ‘tracks’ on the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Thousands of customers across Western Australia were without power across the long weekend, as power poles caught fire due to ...

Firies have spent the night attending to 100 power pole fires across the state ... threat of bush fire risk will continue to rise in Western Australia, we have a drying climate, and just over ...

a very modern type of power plant. Inside the shed at her property in Cowaramup, a rural town about 3 hours south of Perth in Western Australia, a small battery is fixed to the wall. On the roof ...

Western Power crews are working around the clock to restore power to around 38,000 Western Australian homes and businesses after extreme weather conditions caused a series of pole top fires. More than ...

Fire crews say wet weather, mixed with heatwave temperatures and dust triggered the widespread outages as emergency services raced to restore power ... the south-west 100 pole-top fires plunged ...

Households are handing over control of their solar systems in exchange for equipment. Experts believe virtual power plants ...

Parts of Queensland, including Urandangi in the state’s central west ... on Australia Day. Picture: Stormcast. The forecast comes as more than 13,000 properties were left without power as ...

Thousands of Western Australian residents remain without power on Monday following weather-related outages ... many of the outages were due to a mix of infrastructure damage caused by pole top fires, ...

Friday’s summer cold front caused issues across the Perth metropolitan region, with pole top fires as a result of moisture on the lines knocking out power for as many as ... Speaking to The West ...