Power outages around the world (Page 4)

Around 1,300 workers responsible for repairing, maintaining and administrating the electricity grid for London and the South East and East of England are being balloted for pay strike action that could begin in March.

Abergele was hit by a power cut affecting scores of homes and businesses. Scottish Power engineers were working to get electricity restored and were aiming to get it back on.

Northern Powergrid said 40 properties were affected by a power cut in Hovingham. It said the cut was causeed by an unexpected problem with cables or equipment serving the area. Crews were working and restored service a couple hours later.

Pakistan suffered a huge power cut following a breakdown in its national grid, leaving millions of people without electricity. Power minister Khurrum Dastagir said the grid failure followed a frequency variation in southern Pakistan. Pakistan often suffers from power cuts, which are blamed on mismanagement and a lack of investment in infrastructure.

Homes and businesses in L1 were without electricity after a power cut. SP Energy Networks said they had no advance warning of the blackout. Crews were working to restored service a couple of hours later.

Power cuts on the national grid plunged hundreds of households across England and Wales into darkness. Affecting homes in Worksop, in the East Midlands; Newport, Wales; and Newquay in Cornwall. In these cases, power was restored to the affected areas within a few hours of it being acknowledged.

Scottish and Southern Energy Network restored service. The cut affects households in the Avenue Road, Ripley Road and Bradford Road area.
An SSEN spokesperson said that they would like to apologize to their customers who experienced a loss of power, and thank them for their patience while engineers work to restore power.

Chaos erupted at the Philippines’ main gateway, after it faced a severe power outage, paralysing the country’s air traffic control and disrupting over 300 flights causing misery for over 65,000 passengers, the Associated Press reported.

More than 1,500 households across the northwest of England were without electricity over the Christmas holidays, according to data of power outage. Across Greater Manchester, 29 households were affected, while 13 homes in Lancashire have also reportedly been plunged into darkness amid the power outages as temperatures drop.

Northern Powergrid says almost 2,000 homes were affected. They include addresses in Hexham, Corbridge and several small villages and hamlets nearby. Northern Powergrid were working to restore electricity in the area.

People across Sussex have been encouraged to be prepared with a personal power cut plan this winter. A spokeswoman said the view of National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) remained that there would be adequate electricity supplies across the UK this winter. “Purely as a precaution, UK Power Networks is contacting the most vulnerable customers with support and advice, and urging them to make a personal plan so that they know what do in a power cut.”

Residents from Gansbaai, Stanford and Hermanus were left without any power supply following a power outage. The power failure were the result of the increasing pressure on the municipality's water and sanitation infrastructure. The power supply failure comes hot on the heels of Eskom announcing stage 6 load shedding.

The Scottish Government declared a major incident for Shetland after thousands of homes were left without power amid plummeting temperatures. The company said conditions were among the worst its engineers had seen in 20 years.

More than 2,000 UK homes left without power after power cut hits during freezing weather. Thousands of homes in the South East of England have been experiencing power cuts, as the cold Arctic wave sends temperatures plummeting across the UK.

Several districts of southern Paris were plunged into darkness on Thursday night due to a power outage tied to a technical glitch on an electrical transformer of energy supplier Enedis.

Households could be told to cut electricity usage within days amid rising energy costs and low wind levels. The shortages could result in UK blackouts, “probably between 4pm and 7pm in the evenings on those weekdays when it's really, really cold in January and February”.

Homes and businesses in Wrexham have been left without electricity after a power cut. The outage covers over 80 postcodes areas, hitting properties mostly in the LL11 area. Scottish Power said it is aware, and the outage was unexpected.

Power cut hits Worthing, with almost 3,000 properties affected. Parts of Worthing have been hit by a power cut this evening. Crews were working and restored service a couple of hours later.

Power cuts in South Africa have intensified, with the most industrialized state on the continent having to cut electricity for six hours every day. Anger is mounting over the sweeping measures, caused by failures of ageing and poorly maintained infrastructure. Andre de Ruyter, the boss of state-owned Eskom, announced a series of planned outages in the coming week. Urging South Africans to use electricity sparingly, he called for office lights to be turned off at night, and for swimming pool pumps and water heaters to be turned off during peak hours.

Parts of Greater Manchester were without running water, utilities firms have announced, with water bottle stations set up in areas across the city. The northern utility firm revealed the outage was first reported after 6pm, and caused "technical issues" at nearby water treatment works.

There could be power cuts in the UK this winter as an energy crisis escalates. The government is reportedly making plans for outages lasting up to seven days in the “worst case scenario”, according to official documents seen by the Guardian. Ministers will prioritise getting food, water, and shelter to the young and elderly people, as well as carers. If the crisis continues, it is possible the UK could face power outages over the coldest months.

Some households across the UK were hit by a power outage, according to the UK Power Networks. The power cuts were localized and unrelated. Norfolk was hit by these power outages, accounting for a majority of all cases, with the rest of the cases spread out over West Sussex, Greater London, Cambridgeshire, and Essex. In Norfolk, this power cut took place because of a fault that occurred on an underground electricity cable affecting the local area in Norfolk.

Homes in parts of Norfolk were hit with power cuts as a storm front battered the county. Hundreds of homes were reportedly affected in areas surrounding Thetford, Attleborough, East Harling and Diss, according to the UK Power Network outage map. Powered was returned to most of the affected areas a couple of hours later.

The British utility company, National Grid, said this week that UK households may face power cuts this winter for up to three hours at a time, if gas supplies run low. Brits should prepare for afternoon and early evening powercuts early next year if gas imports are reduced, warns the chief of the National Grid.

About 700 passengers on Tokyu Railways Co.'s Den-en-toshi Line had to get off a train and walk along the tracks to the nearest station because of a power outage caused by a substation glitch. Power outages also occurred on Tokyu's Oimachi Line and between Shibuya and Kiyosumi-shirakawa stations on Tokyo Metro's Hanzomon Line, which connects directly with the Den-en-toshi Line, affecting a total of approximately 180,000 passengers.