A power cut has left around 300 properties without electricity in the Alverstone, Adgestone, Knighton and Sandown areas this morning (Friday), including The Bay Secondary School.
Supply was lost to some 24 postcode areas at around 06:22.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks are aware of the fault and engineers are working to restore power as soon as possible.
it is currently predicted that power will be restored by 09:45.
The Bay Secondary School is without power, with anyone needing to contact the school urged to do so on 07522135496.
UPDATE @ 09:47 – The Bay Secondary School has taken the decision to close, due to safety concerns and a lack of canteen for lunch. Students are being sent home after contact has been confirmed with parents.
The following postcodes have been affected by this outage:
For further information about this power cut call the dedicated helpline by dialling 105.
Alternatively, you can send SSEN a message on Facebook or Twitter (@ssencommunity).
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This happens regularly all over the country how will we get to a important meeting in a battery car after it didn’t charge over night due to a power cut?
Stupidity won’t get you anywhere, get a real car!
Why close school?. Power cuts are going to be a future issue and we should all have a back up plan – surely teachers could teach by actually talking to students instead of relying on tech, going without lunch for one day won’t harm 99% of students, sending students home can have a huge impact on many hard working parents.
So I agree with some of your sentiments here, chalk and talk are not necessarily a bad option but….
This is a health and safety world, and parents are the first who will move to litigation if something happens as a result of the school being without power.
I assume the school has some kind of UPS/backup power coverage, which will get them through short-term power outages of under an hour or so.
But beyond that there are more pressing issues such as fire safety and alarm systems, lighting (thank god it’s sunny today – but imagine 800 pupils negotiating the internal corridors with no lights).
Power cuts of over 90 mins are rare in 2022. This is the first such closure in 20 years due to prolonged power outage in the school.
Seems to be more problems with the utility companies since they put their prices up by around 50%
You do realise that the regional distribution grid provider isn’t the same retail company who you pay your bill to?
Better get used to this.
Decades of under-investment by privatised power companies coupled with utter lack of energy policy/strategy by government and we are where we are.
Any business intending to survive needs a power cut recovery plan. Same must apply to publlic services, except they don’t have the resources to achieve it. Now why would that be?
Are you on something sse/sgn spend billions each year upgrading the network. Because they are regulated by ofgem and are only allowed to make so much profit otherwise they would have to drop energy price (fact) so they spend the money upgrading the networks (fact).
I must say this was all rather inconvenient this morning especially given how inclement the weather has been. I really felt a chill when i got up.