The Next Dark Towns: Enemalta Announces List Of Localities With Scheduled Power Outages
Malta and Gozo suffered the first unexpected nationwide blackout yesterday evening, and while it didn’t last too long, it looks like a number of other localities around the islands are hours or days away from some more.
Enemalta has published a list of scheduled power outages for the coming days, and a number of localities – or rather, neighbourhoods within towns – are set to experience potential hours-long lack of electricity due to maintenance works.
In a number of posts yesterday night, Enemalta addressed the power outage, at first only chalking it down to a “trip” before giving further explanation. “The Malta-Sicily Interconnector was switched off on Sunday morning for maintenance works on the switchgear at the Magħtab terminal station,” a post at around 10pm last night explained. “The switchgear works are essential to mitigate a fault that had developed during the past days. During testing of the switchgear at Magħtab, a number of distribution feeders tripped at 6.08pm. Subsequently, a number of machines at Delimara tripped. After the situation was stabilised, the tripped distribution feeders were switched back on, and full supply was restored by 7.26pm.”
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“Interconnector works shall continue and will be completed on Monday,” the post finished. “During this period, supply shall be sourced from Delimara Power Station, which has sufficient generating capacity to meet demand.”
Meanwhile, the full list of the scheduled power outages is available, as usual on the Enemalta site, so check it out for more detailed information on the precise locations and approximate dates and times.
However, Enemalta also offers a further service which you can register to on their website where you can get up-to-date notifications on any scheduled maintenance works, predicted downtimes, and blow-by-blow updates on the works.
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