Power cuts update

Following the power cuts in the general Northfield area during the last week, I wanted to share the below response that I have received from National Grid:

’On receipt of your email I asked our local team in Birmingham for an update. They confirmed that, unfortunately, we are currently dealing with four high-voltage faults in the Northfield area – all of which happened within a 4-5 hour window. It is likely that these faults caused the outages experienced by your constituents.

We recognise the disruption that such outages cause to residents and businesses, and our local team responded swiftly to identify and repair the faults. …

‘To minimise disruption for residents and businesses, and to restore supplies as swiftly as possible, the local team have restored supplies via an alternative, low-voltage back feed and have also made use of generators. There should, therefore, hopefully not be any further interruptions to customers’ supply in this area as our team carry out the necessary repairs.’

National Grid’s emergency 24/7 number can be contacted on 105. Please do also let me know if you experience similar power cuts in the future.