The power is back in Malmö – Sydsvenskan

MalmöJanuary 1, 2017 01:36

the Power is back in Malmö. It is still uncertain what caused the outage.
- We don’t know what caused this but the timing is a maximum of miserable, ” says Eons presstalesperson, Björn Persson.

At 01:12 there was a major power outage in Malmö. About 55 000 subscribers were affected. It focused on the northern part of the city and Hyllie, Rosengård and Fosie retained the power during the night.

- A main line to our substations were knocked out. We connected the input in a different way, and now it works, says Björn Persson.

According to the Eon website it was over 55 000 subscribers who were affected. Sos alarm received a variety of alerts about people stuck in elevators, and many automatic alarm call alerted. The emergency services were already heavily burdened during the night and could not go out on the hissnödlägena.

- We can not but regret that this happened, especially right in the beginning of a new year. There is nothing to solve in five minutes and we did a good job with getting the power on again. But the timing was so bad it can be and we understand that the people affected by this, ” says Björn Persson.

Why the line struck out switchgear is as yet uncertain, but all indications are that the new solution to work, says Björn Persson.

- district heating and varmvattenförsörjningen have been affected by this. Some will notice that the hot water is cooler than normal. It will be addressed during the night. However will, likely as not the inner temperature of the housing to be affected, ” he says.

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