In article 6,
DerbyBorn writes:
I live on a development about 30 - 40 years old.
The electricity company are laying new cables to the little substations. It
is a twisted trio of red cables.
I am curious as to what may have triggered this: Age of the cables?
Inadequacy of the cables? If inadequacy how would the electicity supplier
know? By logging the loads?
Seems a costly job and we have had no powercuts

That sounds like the 11kV feed between substations. There are usually
several paths, so some are redundant, and you wouldn't necessarily
lose power if one failed, but left like that, redundancy is reduced.

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