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Former Synergy chief engineer fears for summer power supplies in Perth and southern WA

On a warmish evening across Perth and southern Western Australia at the end of last month, Andy Wearmouth was fretting while just about everybody else was blissfully ignorant.

That evening, the body that runs WA's biggest and most important electricity system called on a few diesel-fuelled generators to fire up and feed some power into the grid.

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