Significant electricity network incidents
Electricity network operators are required to provide the Department with timely and adequate information regarding certain types of significant events that affect their network. This process occurs under the Significant Electricity Network Incident (SENI) reporting scheme, and the types of incidents required to be reported include:
- serious electricity network accidents
- serious electrical accidents
- actionable safety incidents
- actionable asset incidents.
A serious electricity network accident is an accident involving the electricity network (including accidents remote from the network but for which the network was responsible) as a consequence of which a person is injured (excluding motor vehicle impacts unless electricity is involved).
A serious electrical accident is an accident involving the electricity network (including accidents remote from the network but for which the network was responsible) in which electricity is involved, and as a consequence of which a person is injured.
An actionable safety incident is an incident involving the electricity network, where there was a significant risk that a person could have been injured.
An actionable asset incident is an incident involving network assets where:
- reliability planning standards are not met
- major loss of supply
- equipment failure is of an unusual nature.
Serious Electricity Network Incident forms
- SENI Feb 2011 Form 1 (152kb DOC)
- SENI Feb 2011 Form 2 (126kb DOC)
- SENI Feb 2011 Form 3 (158kb DOC)
- SENI Objectives, definitions and reporting requirements (54kb PDF)
Sydney CBD supply interruptions - 30 March, 4 April and 28 April 2009
Following a series of electricity supply disruptions to the Sydney CBD in March/April 2009, the Director-General issued a notice to EnergyAustralia to provide interim and final reports in relation to those incidents. A PDF version of the Final Report can be found at:
Should you have difficulty in downloading this file, please contact energy.info@industry.nsw.gov.au or 1300 136 888 and request that a hard copy be mailed to you.