US EditionCause of Heathrow shutdown fire still unknown, initial report says
- A fire broke out late on March 20 at the electrical substation near Heathrow, causing a power failure that led to the airport being closed for much of March 21.
- The fire caused a simultaneous shutdown of the supergrid transformers, but an interim report indicates that the exact origin of the fire has not yet been determined and no signs of suspicious activity were detected.
- Power to all four Heathrow passenger terminals was restored by 10:56 a.m. On March 21, followed by safety checks before flights resumed after 6 p.m., disrupting over 270,000 journeys.
- Energy Secretary Ed Miliband ordered an urgent investigation to prevent future incidents, with the National Energy System Operator’s full report due by the end of June to examine infrastructure resilience.
- Heathrow and NESO emphasized the importance of learning lessons from the event to improve UK energy grid resilience and safeguard critical national infrastructure.
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Flailing Energy Quango Says It Doesn’t Know Cause of Heathrow Fire
The National Energy System Operator has this morning released its interim report into the Heathrow power outage. 16 hours of closure, over 1,000 flights cancelled… The renewable energy quango’s report establishes a detailed timeline of events but fails to produce any explanation for the fire at North Hyde Substation and subsequent outage: “The root cause of the fire remains unknown whilst forensic fire investigations are ongoing.[…] Read the rest
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