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Tim Watts wrote:
Mark wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:08:45 +0100, "David WE Roberts"
wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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David WE Roberts wrote:
Just had a power outage for a couple of minutes. It came back on
before I got bored enough to demonstrate my independance from the
National Grid (short term) by tethering my laptop to my mobile for
Internet access. However I would like to know what caused it and if
it is likely to happen again before I power up the desktop. Location
is coastal Suffolk.

Is there any online resource which carries immediate reports of power
outages and causes?

Nothing obvious going on to explain this one - no thunder storms and
the like.

Cheers

Dave R

number is/should be 0800 783 8838


Thanks - I discounted ringing a phone number because (a) A large number
of other people are likely to be competing for the same number (b) It
isn't an emergency. If it was off for some time then I might try that.

If it's the same number I call (I can't recall) then you just get a
recorded message saying something like "we know about the problem but
we've no idea what caused it or when it will be fixed".

EDF^H^H^H UKPower do at least answer the phone - only to claim they know
nothing, despite the fact that I know[1] it is the main 66(or 33)kV
substation that has tripped and I'm pretty sure they will have remote
monitoring and possibly remote control on that.

[1] The whole village goes out and the substation has twin HV feeds, so
unless something really unlucky happens to take both out...

UK power certainly knew about my recent outage 10 minutes in. and that was
at very localised one.

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