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Jun 30 - Power Outage Caused By North Mole Transformer Explosion – Spark Apologises

Gibraltar suffered a major power outage earlier this evening. Although power was slowly returned to some districts at around 8pm, parts of the South district were without power for three hours.

Spark Energy says that it has been informed by its North Mole Power Station operators, Energyst Caterpillar, that during a test run of two engines, a voltage-measuring transformer of the analyzer installed in transformer No 4 blew up causing one of the high voltage breakers to trip.

Spark Energy says it would like to apologise to their customers for any inconvenience caused.

A statement from the company ended:

“All our engineers are currently working in order to allocate the reason of this power cut and we will keep general public informed regarding our findings.”

(Pictures, provided by Spark, show the damage) 



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