The Gibraltar Electricity Authority would like to apologise for any inconvenience to the public on account of the power outage that occurred on Tuesday 12th March 2013 affecting the majority of GEA consumers. The outage occurred at approximately 16.40hrs with all consumers having power restored by 18.55hrs.

The power outage was as the direct result of the Waterport Station power bus zone protection tripping an earth fault thus causing the engines at Waterport to shut down. The consequent overload on the Network caused the other power stations to trip on overload. The exact nature of the fault is still been investigated but the suspect equipment at Waterport has been isolated and we do not expect a re-occurrence of this failure

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