Ausgrid
13 13 88Inner, northern and eastern metropolitan Sydney, the Central Coast and the Hunter region.
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Live outage map · NSW
New South Wales power outages: map & report
Is the power out in New South Wales? Check the live outage map below to see reports near you, report your own, and call the right faults line. In a blackout you call your distributor, not your retailer. If a powerline is down, call 000 first.
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New South Wales is split between three electricity distributors, so the faults line you call depends on where you live, not on the retailer on your bill. Ausgrid covers Sydney's inner, north and east plus the Central Coast and Hunter; Endeavour Energy runs Greater Western Sydney, the Blue Mountains and the Illawarra; and Essential Energy covers regional and rural NSW.
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New South Wales power outage map: check outages near you
This live map shows current power outages reported across New South Wales. Enter your address to recentre it on your suburb, see whether an outage has been reported in your area, and report your own so neighbours are warned. For a fallen line or danger to life, call 000 first.
Live power outages near New South Wales
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Current power outage reports
No active power outages are currently reported by users. If your power is out, use the address check above to report it.
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Report a power outage
Reporting is anonymous, appears straight away on the map above, and helps others in your area. It does not replace calling your distributor faults line, which is what gets a crew dispatched and protects any compensation you may be owed.
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Reports are submitted anonymously and let other users know about power outages in progress. For a fallen line or danger to life, call 000 first.
Fallen powerline or danger to life? Call 000 first
If you see a fallen powerline, sparking, fire or anyone in danger, call Triple Zero (000) immediately and stay at least 8 metres clear, treating every line as live. Then report the network fault to your NSW distributor on the faults line for your area.
Who to call
New South Wales distributor faults numbers
These are the network faults lines, not retailer numbers. Match your area to its network, then call its 24/7 line. For a fallen line or danger to life, call 000 first.
Endeavour Energy
13 10 03Greater Western Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Illawarra and the NSW South Coast.
Endeavour outage detailsEssential Energy
13 20 80Regional, rural and remote New South Wales (about 95% of the state by area), plus parts of southern Queensland.
Essential outage detailsLocal context
Why the power goes out in New South Wales
The most common causes of outages on the NSW network, and why some are seasonal.
Summer heatwaves and air-conditioning load
On the hottest Sydney afternoons, hundreds of thousands of air conditioners switch on at once. The surge can overload local transformers and trip the network, which is why outages cluster on extreme-heat days.
Severe thunderstorms and east-coast lows
Summer storms and east-coast lows bring lightning, flash flooding and damaging wind gusts that bring down lines and branches across the coast and ranges.
Bushfire and total fire ban days
In the Blue Mountains and regional NSW, fire risk can force the network to de-energise lines for safety, and fire damage itself takes lines out for longer repairs.
Ageing rural lines over a vast area
Essential Energy maintains lines across about 95% of the state by area, where long single-wire feeders through bush and farmland are more exposed to trees, wildlife and weather.
In a blackout
What to do during a NSW power outage
Five steps, in order, from checking for danger to protecting your fridge.
Check for danger first
If a powerline is down, or there is fire, smoke or sparks, call 000 straight away and stay at least 8 metres clear of any fallen line.
Is it you or the network?
Check whether your neighbours and the streetlights still have power. If they do, check your switchboard for a tripped safety switch and reset it once.
Check the map, then report it
Use the live map above to see if an outage is already reported nearby. If not, call your distributor faults line, not your retailer, and report it once.
Protect your fridge and freezer
Keep both doors shut. A closed fridge stays cold for about four hours and a full freezer for roughly a day. Do not refreeze food that has fully thawed.
Guard against the restoration surge
Turn off and unplug sensitive appliances. When power returns it can come back with a surge that damages anything left on.
Plan for next time
Save your distributor faults number in your phone now, and keep a torch and charged power bank handy. If anyone relies on life support, register with your retailer.
Money back
New South Wales power outage compensation
Long or repeated blackouts can entitle you to a payment, and many households never realise it.
Ausgrid pays an automatic Guaranteed Service Level (GSL) credit when your interruptions pass a threshold in a financial year, for example around 20 total hours off supply or 10 separate interruptions.
The payment usually lands as an automatic credit on your next bill, passed through your retailer, with no claim to lodge. Read our guide to power outage compensation for the thresholds and how to check yours.
By location
Power outages by city and town in New South Wales
Check the live map, who to call and local causes for your area.
Common questions
A Selectra expert answers your New South Wales power outage questions
Call your distributor (the poles-and-wires network for your address), not your retailer. New South Wales is split between 3 networks, so the number depends on where you live. See the faults-number table on this page to match your area to its line. If a powerline is down or anyone is in danger, call Triple Zero (000) first.
Use the live power outage map above: type in your address and it recentres on your suburb and shows whether anyone nearby has reported being without power. Your distributor also runs its own official outage map showing confirmed network faults and estimated restoration times.
If your neighbour has power, the fault is probably inside your own property, not on the NSW network, most often a tripped safety switch in your switchboard. Reset it once; if it trips again, unplug appliances and call a licensed electrician. If the whole street is dark, it is a network outage to report to your distributor.
Often, yes, and usually automatically. Under the Guaranteed Service Level (GSL) scheme, your distributor must pay a bill credit when your outages pass set thresholds for total hours off supply or the number of interruptions in a financial year. It appears as a credit through your retailer, with no claim needed. See our power outage compensation guide for the detail.
A planned outage is scheduled by your distributor for maintenance, and you must be given advance notice (a letter, SMS or email a few days ahead). An unplanned outage is a fault from storms, fallen trees, equipment failure or a car hitting a pole, with no warning. Both appear on the distributor outage map, but only unplanned outages need reporting.
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