Community / Lights off in various areas
SEVERAL power cuts disrupted electrical supply to customers on Saturday with households throughout Shetland affected.
Around 72 customers in the Gremista area were left without power at 7.50am owing to a broken connecting wire. Power was restored in stages with the last customers connected at 10 past mid-day.
Little over an hour later another 23 customers were cut off by an “emergency outage” caused by a faulty piece of equipment at Tumblin. Engineers had power back on by 10.43am.
Engineers were hampered by a cancelled ferry service for the third call out when the power supply to Fetlar was cut at 3.15pm, this third outage caused by a “low hanging wire” possibly attributed to the weather.
SSE chartered a boat to make the crossing to Fetlar and power for most of the 76 customers was back on by 10.47pm and all were re-connected by 23.49pm, according to an SSE spokeswoman.
Despite heavy rain in the preceding 24 hours, there were no reported outages by mid-day on Sunday.
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