This payment is available to electricity account holders who:
- are connected to the Western Power grid
- use less than 50 megawatt hours of electricity a year, which is nearly all houses and most small businesses
- experience a network power outage lasting 12 continuous hours or more
- had at least 12 hours pass between when we were notified of the power outage and power was restored
- have made the claim within 60 days of the date power was restored
- did not cause the power outage
- had a power outage that was not the result of an emergency action by police, fire or emergency services
- did not request the power outage
- have not previously been paid under the scheme for the same outage at the same address
- have not been affected by a retailer disconnection