A SUDDEN power cut this afternoon (Friday) has affected homes and businesses in Dunfermline, Inverkeithing and Kincardine.
Outside of West Fife, Alloa and Burntisland also experienced an outage. SP Energy Networks said they had “no advance warning” of the power cut at 2.30pm.
It also affected mobile phone networks.
Sharing the news of the issue on X (formerly Twitter), they wrote: “We are aware of a #POWERCUT affecting the Dunfermline, Burntisland, Alloa, Inverkeithing and Kincardine areas. Our engineers are working to restore supplies. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
On the website, they had added: “We had no advance warning of this and first became aware of it at 2.30PM.
“Our control centre will attempt to restore your electricity supply remotely, and we will also send our next available engineers to the area to find and fix the fault as quickly and as safely as possible.”
SP Energy Networks said they expected to have power restored by 4.30pm but they were able to deploy engineers and had power restored before then.
A spokesperson added: “We’re sorry for an interruption to the power supply to customers in Dunfermline this afternoon. This was caused by a fault on the line feeding our Dunfermline and Inverkeithing stations.
“We deployed our engineers quickly and safely and operated a staged restoration to restore power quickly to all. We thank customers for their patience.”
They’re syphoning all the power for Taylor for the weekend. Sorry Dunfermline.
Was worrying how it took out phone masts too. I always thought they had some backup.
I went to put my bathroom light on and thought the bulb was fucked. Luckily I didn’t bother changing it before I checked the other appliances in the house and realised it was a power cut. Bloody pain in the arse .
The fact my phone signal was completely obliterated was a major inconvenience though.
Make sure you stock up on Pineappleade, folks!
Er… how is this news?
Normal occurance.
Why did my brain read Dunder Mifflin?
The fact that this also took out the mobile system is more worrying than people realise
The move from analogue to digital voice for phones means in a power cut the phone stops working. The normal reposte is that you can just use your mobile, well this shows that might not work
This means community alarms & 999 aren’t going to work.
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A SUDDEN power cut this afternoon (Friday) has affected homes and businesses in Dunfermline, Inverkeithing and Kincardine.
Outside of West Fife, Alloa and Burntisland also experienced an outage. SP Energy Networks said they had “no advance warning” of the power cut at 2.30pm.
It also affected mobile phone networks.
Sharing the news of the issue on X (formerly Twitter), they wrote: “We are aware of a #POWERCUT affecting the Dunfermline, Burntisland, Alloa, Inverkeithing and Kincardine areas. Our engineers are working to restore supplies. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
On the website, they had added: “We had no advance warning of this and first became aware of it at 2.30PM.
“Our control centre will attempt to restore your electricity supply remotely, and we will also send our next available engineers to the area to find and fix the fault as quickly and as safely as possible.”
SP Energy Networks said they expected to have power restored by 4.30pm but they were able to deploy engineers and had power restored before then.
A spokesperson added: “We’re sorry for an interruption to the power supply to customers in Dunfermline this afternoon. This was caused by a fault on the line feeding our Dunfermline and Inverkeithing stations.
“We deployed our engineers quickly and safely and operated a staged restoration to restore power quickly to all. We thank customers for their patience.”
For more information, updates or a full list of affected postcodes, visit the [website](https://www.spenergynetworks.co.uk/pages/power_cut_details.aspx?incRef=INCD-1027039-s)
They’re syphoning all the power for Taylor for the weekend. Sorry Dunfermline.
Was worrying how it took out phone masts too. I always thought they had some backup.
I went to put my bathroom light on and thought the bulb was fucked. Luckily I didn’t bother changing it before I checked the other appliances in the house and realised it was a power cut. Bloody pain in the arse .
The fact my phone signal was completely obliterated was a major inconvenience though.
Make sure you stock up on Pineappleade, folks!
Er… how is this news?
Normal occurance.
Why did my brain read Dunder Mifflin?
The fact that this also took out the mobile system is more worrying than people realise
The move from analogue to digital voice for phones means in a power cut the phone stops working. The normal reposte is that you can just use your mobile, well this shows that might not work
This means community alarms & 999 aren’t going to work.