Power cuts

[LosingGrip]

Currently sat at home trying to keep myself entertained during another power cut. Just looked at previous text messages from our supplier and this is the forth one since March.

When I was living with my parents we had one or two in the 29 years I was there.

I’m in a more rural area now, but it’s still a large(ish) town. Wikipedia says 6,000 people in 2018.

It’s not st weather, it’s not windy or anything.

Is it normal to have this many power cuts?

[Condi]

Not really, no. Where in the world are you? For the sake of a £60 change over switch and a £200 generator I'd be investing in some backup generation if I were you.

[shtu]

You should go and hunt out the service levels and compensation for domestic customers, and take careful note of each power cut.

They sharpen up their act when they start having to pay compo.

[sherman]

Had 2 or 3 small short powercuts (1-3 hour) in Edinburgh over the last couple of years. I assume its down to all the recent house building nearby and an infastucture that hasnt been substantially upgraded since probably the 80s when the last power station was built in the area.

[Dal3D]

Few more this winter perhaps

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63155827

[donkmeister]

Any building development going on at the edge of town? That was when powercuts became a more common occurrence around here.
Also, according to one of the guys who fixed my communicating cable (can't blame that one on the developers) they find that very wet weather reveals failing cables. My street was electrified in the 50s so a lot of our final runs are beyond their design life, hence failures starting to becoming apparent now... Obviously that only affects one house at a time and involves getting your driveway/garden dug up.