Another blackout up north
Aug 15, 2014
Bishop Hill in Energy: grid

A blackout has hit Scotland, plunging 27,000 homes into the dark.

The power loss lasted for several hours before engineers managed to restore supplies.

Energy giant SSE said a transmission fault had been the cause of the power cut.

This is pretty interesting, coming so soon after another blackout took out over 100,000 Scottish homes back in April. Does anyone know if this kind of incident is expected to happen so frequently?

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