Jan 25 - Damage To Cable Causes Power Outage

Written by YGTV Team on 25 January 2017.

The Gibraltar Electricity Authority (GEA) has said that the power outage this morning, which affected most of Gibraltar, was caused when Ministry of Defence staff damaged a power cable located along Dockyard Road.

The GEA says that the outage was therefore the result of an accident and not because of a lack of generating capacity or of a failure in the distribution network.

A statement continued: “Notwithstanding the scale of the power loss and the complexity in isolating a fault of this nature in order to commence safe restoration of power, the GEA was able to power up some consumers 20 minutes after the fault occurred. By 11:50 all consumers had had their electricity supply reconnected.

“The GEA would like to apologise to its customers for the inconvenience, which was brought about by circumstances beyond its control.”