A dead simple running total of how many days Gibraltar has managed to go without being plunged into darkness.
Official reason:GibElec said the issue was due to a cable fault on Queensway.
In plain English:A cable fault on Queensway knocked out power across several parts of Gibraltar for roughly three hours. We had to eat cold potatoes for lunch.
Source: original notice
Official reason:Battery Energy Storage System testing did not respond as expected, causing an outage before supply was restored promptly.
In plain English:The shiny new battery setup was apparently meant to reassure everyone, and instead it managed to switch much of Gibraltar off before anyone could finish saying modernisation.
Source: original notice
Official reason:A fault affected supply overnight, with the Electricity Authority working to locate the problem between Devil's Tower Road and Queensway.
In plain English:Something along the Eastside network quietly disgraced itself in the night and left engineers pacing about Queensway trying to work out which bit had lost the will to live.
Source: original notice
Official reason:Battery Energy Storage System commissioning tests created the risk of outages during overnight testing.
In plain English:This was an announced testing window for the new battery system, not a surprise collapse of the grid.
Source: original notice
Official reason:A contractor drilled through a live underground electricity cable.
In plain English:Someone literally drilled into a live cable. You almost have to admire the commitment to making things worse.
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Official reason:A contractor damaged three main high-voltage cables while carrying out works at Neil Pinero Road.
In plain English:Three major cables got taken out in one go. About as subtle as drop-kicking the national fuse box.
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Official reason:Fault isolated to an underground high-voltage section between St Theresa’s Church and the former Waterport Power Station.
In plain English:A hidden high-voltage fault somewhere under the Eastside made life miserable for everyone plugged into that stretch.
Source: original notice
Official reason:A contractor went through major cables near North Mole Power Station during reserve battery system works.
In plain English:A contractor managed to go through major cables beside North Mole while works were underway, which is one way of making sure the whole of Gibraltar notices your project.
Source: original notice
Official reason:A high-voltage cable fault on the distribution network after an initially suspected gas-supply issue.
In plain English:Looked like a gas problem at first. Turned out the real culprit was a knackered high-voltage cable.
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Official reason:Interruption to gas supply from the LNG terminal.
In plain English:Valentine's Day romance took a back seat because the gas feed coughed and eight districts lost power.
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Official reason:Initial findings pointed to a voltage drop on the high-voltage network at the Mid Harbour Distribution Centre.
In plain English:Something in the network went properly sideways and the whole Rock copped it right before breakfast.
Source: original notice
Official reason:Engineers traced the incident to a high-voltage cable gland failure at Hesses substation in the Landport area.
In plain English:A substation component packed in and a chunk of town got plunged into the dark.
Source: original notice
Official reason:A private contractor damaged a high-voltage cable on the ex-MOD network in the South District.
In plain English:Someone digging where they absolutely shouldn't have been clipped a major cable and knocked the whole place sideways.
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Official reason:The high-voltage network experienced an earth fault.
In plain English:A serious network fault sent the whole lot over. One of those proper 'everything just died' jobs.
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Official reason:Gas supply to the GEA power station was interrupted after a vaporiser temperature sensor failed at the LNG terminal.
In plain English:The juice to the power station got choked off because a gas-system sensor had a wobble. Very glamorous, very annoying.
Source: original notice