
The Aston Apartments power outage – October 2020
In August 2020, Ausgrid gave the Strata Management of Aston Apartments, in Hosking Place Sydney, just six weeks’ notice of a seven-day power outage to enable the electricity distribution company to replace and reconfigure mains electricity cables in their nearby Main Sydney CBD Substation. Ausgrid also advised the building manager to hire a diesel generator to provide alternate power during the outage and to secure a permit to run it from the Sydney City Council, which would cost residents around $20,000.