Basslink to Pay $38.5M Damages Over Tasmania’s 2015 Power Outage

Basslink to Pay $38.5M Damages Over Tasmania’s 2015 Power Outage
Lower water levels at Tods Corner hydroelectric power station off the Great Lake in Breona, Tamsania, Australia on April 17, 2016. Mark Kolbe/Getty Images
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Energy providers, Basslink have been ordered by an arbitrator to pay the Tasmanian government $38.5 million in compensation over an outage in December 2015 due to failure of its undersea interconnector from Victoria.

A justice mediator on Thursday night decided in favour of the Tasmanian government and state-controlled company Hydro Tasmania on several long-standing disputes related to an electric and telecommunication outage on the island.