![]() No trains in or out of London’s Clapham Junction Station. “Given it’s a Friday afternoon, it’s the last thing you want to encounter,” she said. Harriet Jackson, 26, told the BCC there was an “apocalyptic” scene on Northcote Road, in Battersea, when traffic lights cut out and cars were not stopping. Our fleet responded as expected helping stabilise the grid. The outage occurred on the same day Britain’s new Chancellor Sajid Javid met National Grid trainees.Ī significant drop in generation this afternoon caused a major drop in frequency leading to power cuts across the country. Please keep an eye on our feed for updates. We may not be able to answer individual tweets at this time. We believe this is due to a failure to National Grid's network, which is affecting our customers. Problems in the last 24 hours in Miamisburg, Ohio. We're aware of a power cut affecting a large area of London and South East. “We believe this is due to a failure to National Grid’s network, which is affecting our customers.” “We’re aware of a power cut affecting a large area of London and South East,” the tweet said. Julian Leslie, Head of National Control at National Grid ESO, explains more: /Tt1RiKhwRSĮarlier UK Power Networks tweeted that the outages affected “large parts of London and the South East”. “I’ve just had confirmation that all of the country’s supplies are now back on and the system is operating as normal.” “You would have seen this in the temporary and short power cut and since this happened at around five o’clock the distribution network operators have been working to restore your supplies to your home and your businesses. “As a result of this and this rare event, the system needs to protect itself and what was happening was the frequency was falling – the system can see this – and unfortunately the way the system protects itself is by losing some demand. “This event was the loss of two generators that connect to the National Grid transmission network in order to export our power. “Earlier this evening we had an unplanned, near-simultaneous event on our network,” he said. National Grid head of national control Julian Leslie explained the outage in a Twitter video: Power companies blamed the outage on the National Grid, a multinational company which owns and maintains the high-voltage electricity transmissions in England and Wales. Lovely start to the #weekend #powercut /jtdI9sC9Wy Power was eventually restored after hours of disruption on rail networks however rail authorities warned travellers that delays would continue. The so-called Black Friday power meltdown was blamed on a “large scale National Grid failure” caused by problems at two power generators. Police scrambled to manage the chaos, with officers deployed to busy traffic intersections were lights were on the blink and taking charge at railway stations. ![]() National Rail Enquiries confirmed most trains were at a standstill in London and the South East at what is one of the busiest times of the week.Ībout a million people were also plunged into darkness while offices and businesses went black and commuters were forced to use their phones as torches in dark tunnels and stations. No more trains on the board at kings cross! #powercut /RwpAgW4AbL
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