Explosion at Carlton Hotel

[DACH]

No wonder I hear Suntec area today have power failure.

[Kopites]

Hope no injury to anyone.

Edited February 14, 2019 by Kopites

[Knoobie]

why nowadays everything also say is first time?

 

 

The issue I am seeing here is that our Minister see these incidents as separate issue, and don't seems to have a proactive approach to deal with and prevent it!!

Faulty voltage transformer likely cause of Jan 26 power failure: Koh Poh Koon

SINGAPORE: A faulty voltage transformer at a substation in Bright Hill was the likely cause of the power failure that hit parts of Singapore on Jan 26, according to preliminary investigations by the Energy Market Authority (EMA).

Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday (Feb 12), Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Koh Poh Koon said the faulty transformer had started a fire at the substation, after which electrical protective devices were activated to isolate the fault so that the downstream equipment would not be damaged.

This resulted in the cut in power to the affected consumers, he added.

"This is the first power failure incident involving a faulty voltage transformer in the past five years," said Dr Koh, who was speaking in reply to Non-Constituency Member of Parliament Leon Perera, who had asked about the extent and reasons behind the power disruption.

Mr Perera had also asked about the trend in the occurrences of such power failures over the past five years and the steps taken to minimise such incidents moving forward.

On whether power failure incidents have seen any trends over the past five years, Dr Koh said: “We will be worried about a trend if the same component or the same system within the electrical grid across different substations fail repeatedly.”

“While there may be a couple of incidences that happened in the recent past, they affect different parts (and) components for which the original equipment manufacturers are still looking at it."

He added: "Until the investigations are complete, I will not draw any premature conclusion to say there is a trend linking all these different equipment and different components together."