A power cut is affecting 1,500 properties in central Ryde this evening (Wednesday) in an area that stretches from St John’s to the seafront.
The early evening outage is causing chaos for local residents, as well as the many businesses on Union Street and throughout Ryde Town in the PO33 region.
South Western Railway has confirmed that the power cut is affecting train services in the area, with services currently unable to run between Ryde St John’s and the Pier.
The outage was reported at 19:30 and is affecting 106 postcode areas, but no cause has yet been ascertained.
Engineers are en route to identify and resolve the problem as soon as possible.
It is estimated that the outage will last until 22:30 tonight, although some properties are now coming back online.
UPDATE @ 20:06 – Power has now been restored to some customers but around 450 properties in 44 postcodes are still affected.
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Don’t worry Steve is on his way to switch it back on.
Answer is don’t flick the switch off in the first place. Most companies only do this in the winter when demand is lot higher but not this lot
There has been 2 cases of controlled load shedding in about 11 years in the UK.
Power back on, but none of my electric sockets are working. Anyone else have this issue?
I’m sure there’s probably still a few cannabis farms having issues.
The early evening outage is causing chaos for local residents
sitting indoors with no tv is not chaos . It is an inconvenience at best.
most people have mobile phones that are already charged to remain on line and make calls.
the real question is why are we seeing these powercuts across the island lately – is it part of a devious load shedding plan, because the grid can’t cope due to solar and wind not having the capability of being base load power.
Yes you got it in one more believers every day
Quit the paranoid BS. Most likely Island Roads cutting a cable or just a lack of maintenance of infrastructure.
really – so when the hand wringing lefties have shut down all coal and gas power plants, what happens when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining – well genius brain snail, do tell.
today 11 may we see uk electricity generated from…
52.5% of uk electric coming from gas
14% imported
10.5% nuclear
6.1% solar
3.4% pump storage hydro
1.9% hydro
5.5% wind
3.9% biomass
and the rest miscellaneous
so brain, if you get rid of fossil fuels, where does the 52.5% come from and it clearly shows wind/solar aren’t capable of providing the lot. Just imagine no wind/no sun shining – that means 11.6% of the electric generated today, would not have been.
Nope. It was equipment failure causing a trip at a substation. If it was load shedding, it would affect a much larger area (potentially the whole island). Given the bulk of supply is received through the Gurnard interconnector, as soon as the grid frequency starts to drop below 48hz, the interconnector would trip out to prevent damage.
1 am On Sat 13th May, another power outage in my area PO33 2HJ Power came back on approximatly 1.45 am.
Somebody much have been charging up their electric Hummer EV on Wednesday.