Replace: This text’s contents and headline have been up to date with new data supplied by SP on Apr. 9, 10:30pm
HDB blocks in Sengkang have been hit by a whole energy outage on the evening of Apr. 8 (Monday).
The outage began at round 11:40pm and lasted for lower than two hours, residents instructed Mothership.
Through the outage, lifts additionally stopped working, in accordance with an Apr. 9 press launch by the Sengkang City Council (SKTC).
The city council mentioned that the outage affected the Block 275 sequence at Compassvale Hyperlink and the Block 272 sequence in Sengkang Central.
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Electrical energy was restored at round 1:05am and 1:25am on Apr. 9 for Blocks 275 and 272 respectively.
Mothership understands that different blocks have been additionally affected, albeit momentarily.
A Mothership reader who resides in Sengkang mentioned that at his block, the blackout solely lasted for a short second.
“The entire property blinked. I assumed I handed out for a cut up second,” he mentioned.
Electrical energy provide interrupted at SP’s substation
In its press launch, SKTC apologised to residents affected by the outage.
The city council mentioned that it was alerted to the outage at round 11:50pm on Apr. 8 and activated its property managers and electricians onsite.
Electricians and technicians visited residents who required help, and carry technicians have been additionally activated to make sure the protected resumption of providers.
The group stood down at round 2:15am on Apr. 9 (Tuesday).
The city council added that the reason for the outage was an interruption within the electrical energy provide at SP’s substation.
Investigations are at present underway.
“SKTC shall be working intently with our colleagues from SP and HDB, and can think about mandatory steps to forestall related recurrence,” it mentioned.
“We thank residents for his or her understanding in addition to our colleagues from SP, EMSU and HDB for his or her collaborative efforts in restoring electrical energy to our residents.”
SP investigating “localised tripping” at its substations
When queried, SP instructed Mothership that in complete, eight HDB residential blocks and a college alongside Compassvale Hyperlink have been affected by the disruption:
“Our officers have been instantly deployed to the positioning and our precedence was to revive provide safely and as shortly as attainable.
Provide was progressively restored from 1.04am and totally restored by 1.15am.
Our preliminary findings point out that the incident arose from localised tripping at our substations inside the neighborhood.
We’re investigating the reason for the incident.”
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