Hong Kong minister expresses ‘great disappointment’ to CLP Power chief after second Tsing Yi electricity outage in 1 week, hundreds affected
- Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan says he is ‘greatly disappointed’ over outage at On Mei House, which lasted almost 1½ hours
- On New Year’s Day, voltage dip at substation at nearby estate led to more than a dozen residents being trapped in lifts
According to the utility that serves Kowloon, the New Territories and most outlying islands, an 11,000-volt underground cable failed in one of its substations, cutting power to 388 customers for almost 1½ hours at On Mei House in Cheung On Estate at 9.38am on Sunday.
The estate is located about a block away from Nga Ying Chau Street, the source of another outage on New Year’s Day.
The Environment and Ecology Bureau said it was “extremely concerned and shocked” that two areas in Tsing Yi had suffered power outages within a week.
In a separate statement, the bureau said Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan had expressed his “great disappointment” to CLP Power managing director Joseph Law Ka-chun over the two outages occurring in a short period of time.
A bureau spokesman said the government had ordered the company to “launch a comprehensive review of its power supply system”, adding that it was required to carry out inspections and maintenance to prevent a repeat of the incident.
“A stable and safe power supply is crucial to the public and Hong Kong,” the spokesman said.
