In article , Caecilius
wrote:
On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 05:29:02 +1100, "Rod Speed"
wrote:

Brian Gaff wrote

That is what SHOULD happen, of course, but in common no doubt with
many organisations, there is no way of flagging repeat things unless
they are flagged to a higher authority.

It doesn’t need to be flagged. Someone is replacing the substation fuse
and must be aware that they have to keep doing what shouldn’t need to be
done very often at all.

It looks like you might be correct. I had a phone call this morning
saying that the problem was the fuse at the substation, which was
replaced. I confirmed that the power was back on.

The person then said: we see this is the 4th time this has happened, so
we're sending someone to have a look. I'm not sure why whoever replaced
the fuse at the substation couldn't do this, but perhaps they are
different jobs. Anyway, it seems that UK power networks do keep records
and an investigation gets triggered after some number of repeat faults.

many years ago, before privatisation, we had similar problems. It turned
out to be due to an underground cable fault - so, yes, a different job to
replacing a fuse. Interesting the fault had been created by the gas board
when they'd been installing their new plastic mains. Outer sheath of
electricty cable damaged allowing water ingress.

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