Fire caused by ‘catastrophic failure’ on one of transformer’s high voltage bushings, a ‘technical fault’ most likely caused by moisture and first detected in 2018Heathrow substation fire ‘caused by fault first identified seven years ago’In other news…Consumers in England and Wales will get far higher compensation for poor customer service from their water supplier, under new government measures to crack down on failing utilities companies.As Prospect’s submission to the NESO inquiry warned, the outage at the North Hyde sub-station resulted from a regulatory regime which prioritises short-term cost-cutting and artificially contrived competition.Old infrastructure has not been effectively maintained and the workforce has been under-valued and under-invested in. Continue reading...