Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKA #burglar has been sentenced to #prison for impersonating #UKPowerNetworks staff in #Kent SE #England and stealing #copper #cable and other #metal - putting many places off supply and causing extremely dangerous and unpleasant situations (removing protective earth cable can cause a rising neutral and phase imbalance, which results in almost 400V appearing in places where only 230V is expected)
All #trafficLights in #Ipswich town centre failed today for a large part of the day.
There has been no statement to the media from #Suffolk County #Council or even the #Police !
It would be extremely unlikely that all the supplies from #UKPowerNetworks failed at the same time as they are from many different feeder pillars and substations - something bad must have happened to the controllers.
Although some #drivers claimed "traffic was flowing better", this will only be the case for dominant traffic flows, and #pedestrians would have struggled to find opportunities to cross the roads safely
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/25936053.live-updates-traffic-light-outage-causes-chaos-ipswich/
I hope the investigation into this "make pumps 5" #fire in #Suffolk involving an #EV is published (and the make and model of vehicle and charger publicised) - it seems to also include the #charger as #UKPowerNetworks had to put 73 buildings off supply to make the scene safe..
A somewhat ironic incident : an #EV was crashed into an #electricity pole in #Cambridgeshire - causing a big #fire and putting several homes off supply. The driver was lucky and escaped with only minor #injuries
NorfolkGregThis #electricity #meter doesn't exist. The #UKPowerNetworks database record that it was removed from the premises in 2018, presumably when a tenant stopped paying.
It was a #mystery why, when we bought the cottage, #ScottishPower could not find a record of it. Now we know. We guess that every occupier of the cottage since 2018 has had free electricity.
It didn't help that Scottish Power has the address of the cottage ending in 4AP, when it should end 3AQ.
Simon Cox 
1st power cut of the year.
#ukpowernetworks
#ukpowernetworks
Ben AvisonI’m lucky enough to live one of these areas of eastern England, where #OctopusEnergy and #UKPowerNetworks are running a trial where electricity is free for specific periods of peak renewable generating capacity. We’re in the middle of the first such 2-hour window right now, so we’ve turned everything we can on. We’ve been managing to draw about 18 kW from the grid for the first hour, on top of roughly 2 kW we’re generating from our own solar array.
Sydenham News & Views (Moved)#sydenham #se26 #crystalpalace #manholes
Spotted at the corner of Lawrie Park Avenue & Lawrie Park Gardens is a manhole sporting the inscription "The Crystal Palace District Electric Supply Co Ltd".
Google tells us the company was set up in 1891 to supply power to the Palace from the Sydenham Power Station - location unknown. They also served the houses being built in the area - and it is still doing so as part of #UKPowerNetworks I guess.
