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Power cut  north Chiswick

3 times now last month we near the overground station

Jon morris ● 2092d15 Comments

Lights just flickered on the avenue Further up the avenue and around southfield road in darkness

Julian Pavey ● 2092d

Devonshire Road too

Ben Gemmingen ● 2092d

900 homes affected Back on now But 3 times in 23 days

Jon morris ● 2092d

We’re still out. Off Southfields road

Alex McDevitt ● 2092d

Yes it's gone again here

Jon morris ● 2092d

Our electricity just keeps going off for a few seconds and then coming back on, what on earth is going on?

Fiona Campbell ● 2092d

Went in Airedale too - and just had a slight flicker about 1 minute ago

J Morse ● 2092d

Power went off and back on again twice in the Bedford Park area. On at the moment.

Mark Edwards ● 2092d

It's all of the new bike traffic lights overloading the network and tripping the main transformer in Hounslow

Rob Reynolds ● 2092d

Computer screen keeps flickering but no other electrical problems (North Chiswick) but all the lights along the South side of Southfield Road were off - quite spooky but actually quite pleasant - and alarms from many houses roudabout going mad when I took dogs out around 7 pm tonight.  The lights in Southfield Playing Fields  were on. The lights on the South side of Southfield Road came back as I was returning with dogs around half an hour later.  Seems very specific, presume different switches for different areas and North Chiswick seems to be somewhere North of Southfield Road so we were ok

Claire Moran ● 2092d

Two momentary off-and-on-agains in Antrobus Road earlier this evening. SSE map has several flags dotted round South Acton and Bedford Park.

Peter Evans ● 2092d

Why?  Electricity is what we run our businesses, domestic heating and lighting and hospitals on.  Why is it so dodgy?  Are we really becoming a third world country?

Claire Moran ● 2092d

Claire, for heavens sake have you ever lived in a third world country?  The occasional outage is a first world problem and due to infrequent problems from a multitude of sources.  Don’t electrical items in your home sometimes fail and have to be replaced, parts of your car fail or your boiler breaks down but when a less than 5 minutes outage happens you declare the decline of all things civilised.My problem was that it took me a while to reset the microwave clock.  I have only had this one 3 years and it was not as instinctive as the last.

Elizabeth Ross ● 2092d

I went onto SSE website last night to post a message and enquire what was going on and their response was as follows, which explains it:Hello, I'm so sorry for the intermittent supply today.Our engineers are doing something called 'switching the network'. This involves us switching on electricity from different points of the network due to a fault nearby. There are two reasons for this, firstly, it will get most customers back on supply fairly quickly. Secondly, we will be able to narrow down where the fault is as customers that remain off supply will be located near the fault.During this process you may notice your power going on and off, please don't be alarmed, this is just because we are switching the electricity on and off to try and locate the fault.I'm so sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. If you do go off supply again and stay off please don't hesitate to get in touch as we are here 24/7. - Billie

J Morse ● 2092d

Had a call from themSeems a overground cable came  in contact with something elseWe are working to sort it out and might be more small Switch off  today Let’s see

Jon morris ● 2092d