Thousands of customers who sweltered through blackouts during the Australia Day weekend in 2018 are yet to cash more than $382,000 in compensation cheques.
On January 28 and 29 last year, almost 95,000 Victorians lost power as a record-testing heatwave sparked the biggest surge in power consumption the state had seen on a Sunday.
On what was one of the hottest January nights on record, with temperatures failing to dip below 27.8 degrees, the outages left many without cooling.
The chorus of complaints after some customers were left without power for as long as 30 hours saw the government broker a deal with the state's five electricity distributors to deliver a $5 million heat relief package.