By Dongyun Kwon
Towns in the Yarra Valley are suffering from power outages once again on Thursday 22 February.
One outage was reported at 10.42am in Lilydale and the other one was reported at 11.30am in Emerald.
An Ausnet spokesperson said trees have fallen on power lines in Emerald.
“ETR’s 6.30pm tonight [for the Emerald incident],” they said.
“There are currently 630 houses off from the broader incident from last week and two new faults from today from winds, affecting 4933 houses in Lilydale and surrounds and 1743 houses in Emerald.”
The impacted towns for the Lilydale power line are Wandin East, Wandin North, Seville, Silvan, Gruyere, Mount Evelyn, Kalorama and Coldstream, and for the Emerald power line are Macclesfield, Avonsleigh, Cockatoo and Emerald.
