electricity outages in brighton and hove

By Mike Ashworth | December 4, 2009

You’ve probably heard stories about the impending doom that is the shortage of power in Britain which may result in managed powercuts.

Well it looks like that day is here already.

I heard this morning that in Brighton and Hove the areas of Tongdean / Valley Drive area already experience such cuts.

When I asked if these weren’t just random power cuts, I was told that they are managed outages, which last thirty minutes (almost to the second) to help alleviate the stress on the grid in our City. They had experienced one this morning.

I was also told that this partiocular area was chosen as it has a high concentration of elderly people who may not be heavily impacted in the morning by an outage.

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3 Responses to “electricity outages in brighton and hove”

  1. Robert Bravery
    9:08 pm on December 4th, 2009

    And here I though that planned blackouts was only the invention of Eskom in South Africa. I suppose then this happens all around the world.

  2. ridgwaytim
    2:30 pm on December 10th, 2009

    didn’t ever think we’d be seeing such things in sussex - be interested to hear more - would you be willing to drop me an email?
    All the best, Tim

  3. Mike Ashworth
    11:13 pm on December 10th, 2009

    hiya, i dont know much more than i published, just the view of someone who lives in that area.

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