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Savannah Meacham

Battery failure led to power plant mass outage: report

A report has been released on a 2021 explosion at Callide Power Station that caused a mass outage. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

A battery failure has been blamed for an explosion at a Queensland coal-fired power plant that left nearly half a million residents without electricity.

A report and video released by state-owned CS Energy on Tuesday revealed the simultaneous failure of key equipment and backups that led to the explosion in Callide Power Station's C4 unit near Biloela in Queensland in May 2021.

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