Hong Kong’s CLP Power told to complete systems inspection this month after district hit by 2 disruptions in a week
- Hundreds of residents in Tsing Yi affected by two electricity incidents in a week
- CLP told to immediately enhance inspection of power supply system in Tsing Yi
The Electrical and Mechanical Services Department said on Monday night it made the request at a meeting with the power firm earlier in the day, after hundreds of residents in Tsing Yi were affected by two electricity incidents in a week.
On Sunday, an 11kV underground cable joint failed at On Mei House in Cheung On Estate, leading to a partial power supply interruption affecting 388 customers for almost 1½ hours from 9.38am.
That incident followed one on New Year’s Day, when a voltage dip at a substation 200 metres (660 feet) away on Nga Ying Chau Street trapped more than a dozen residents in lifts and set off fire alarms in Kwai Chung, Tsuen Wan, Tsing Yi, Ma On Shan and Sha Tin.
A spokesman for CLP Power, which serves Kowloon, the New Territories and most outlying islands, on Sunday said the two outages were not connected, but engineering personnel had been assigned to inspect the equipment at the estate.
The department said that during Monday’s meeting it asked CLP to immediately enhance the inspection of the power supply system in Tsing Yi and that it should complete inspections within this month.
The utility firm was also told to review the maintenance arrangements for its entire transmission and distribution system in the city to prevent similar incidents from happening again, a department spokesman added.
