City Power technicians are hard at work restoring power in parts of Roodepoort. The power outage was caused by a faulty feeder cable and the theft of two feeder cables. This incident occurred at about 2am this morning, at Sentraal Substation near Florida Lake. Areas such as Florida, Fleurhof, Georginia, parts of Discovery, and Manufacta […]
Tuesday, 13 September 2016: Eskom’s efforts to stamp out on the apparent increase in incidents of cable theft in the Overberg District in the Western Cape recently paid off dividends when one suspect was apprehended in Bot River whilst a bakkie and the stolen cable was confiscated. In mid-August, thieves stole strands of Eskom overhead […]
Four homes went up in flames and hundreds were left without power in sub-zero temperatures this morning after thieves cut through a cable at an electricity substation to steal copper worth just £40. One family, with two young children, was forced to flee their home in Greenock, Inverclyde, at 4am. They escaped the house in Devon […]
For the second day in a row, a power station belonging to the same company has been found broken into, with thieves making off with copper grounding wire. By Carly Swain The latest case was discovered this morning at the Carteret-Craven Electric Cooperative’s substation near Maysville in Jones County. Thieves made off with several hundred […]
ScottishPower publish substation earth monitoring report following the successful project with Cresatech CuTS® ZM.
The report from ScottishPower Energy Networks, published on 18th July 2016 provides confirmation that “the Cresatech CuTS® unit and service is a viable solution for the detection and mitigation of safety impact and service continuity issues that result from metal infrastructure theft from electrical networks.” It “highlighted that it is possible to monitor substation assets through the use of an innovative monitoring system.”
Thieves ‘attempting to steal copper wire’ from ESB substation sparked €10m fire Gardai have appealed for help after it emerged that thieves stealing copper wire from an ESB substation caused a massive fire costing€10million worth of damage. The ESB has revealed that 120,000 customers were left without power when the 220KV substation in Inchicore, South […]
Televisions and microwaves in some Sheffield homes have been damaged after copper thefts at two substations caused a power surge. CE Electric UK said about 400 customers in the Batemoor area of the city were without power. A spokeswoman said there had been reports of damage to some appliances. The power surge is thought to […]
A man has died at an electrical substation in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Police, fire and ambulance crews were called to the substation in Ore Close just before 2100 BST on Monday. A spokesman for Staffordshire Police said a 46-year-old Chesterton man was found injured on the ground of the substation compound. He said the man, who has […]
Vandals who have carried out 17 attacks on electricity substations are endangering their lives, police have said. Security has been stepped up at sites in the Tandridge and Redhill areas of Surrey in response to the incidents. But police and electricity suppliers EDF Energy, until recently known as Seeboard, said vandals were continuing to damage […]