Saturday 25 May, 2013
In Glassmore, Swords a fault has caused a power outage for around 21 houses and a fault in Cloyne, Co Cork means around 42 houses are without electricity.
ESB Networks says a transformer was damaged during storms, and that crews are working to restore power.
Worst blackout to hit India in ten years highlights country’s struggle to meet growing demand for electricity.
The ESB says a cable fault in the Loughlinstown area meant just over 2,600 homes were without power this evening.
Meanwhile, the ESB has restored electricity to almost 15,000 households who lost power yesterday.
Heavy winds are expected to affect the east coast in particular today.
Heavy winds last night and early this morning caused a power cut to around 15,000 households.
The power outage has affected over 1 million people and sparked the automatic shut-down of two nuclear reactors.
The ESB has said that it was a transformer failure that caused the outage on Sunday. Amazon’s backup generators failed after the power cut.
The ESB says only a few hundred customers were without power overnight after freak storms blacked out thousands of homes.
THE BUSY DUBLIN city centre area around Harcourt and Camden Street is currently without electricity. The power cut hit at lunchtime and left businesses and residential properties in the dark, and in some cases, without heating.
The ESB have confirmed to TheJournal.ie that there is a local fault to the power supply and that their engineers are at the scene trying to correct it. “In an urban area, this could take up to two hours to fix,” said an ESB service person.
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