US EditionInvestigation ordered into power outage that closed Heathrow
- The British government has ordered an investigation into energy resilience after a fire at a substation shut down Heathrow Airport for almost 18 hours, affecting over 200,000 passengers and resulting in over 1,300 flight cancellations due to the outage.
- Energy Secretary Ed Miliband requested the National Energy System Operator to investigate the incident and provide findings on energy resilience.
- Heathrow Airport stated it is now fully operational, with British Airways expecting to operate approximately 85% of its scheduled flights following the fire.
- While police deemed the fire non-suspicious, the incident raised serious concerns about the UK's aging infrastructure, prompting calls for improvements amid pressure from airlines and politicians.
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Heathrow Airport Transformer Fire Prompts Urgent Inquiry, Exposes Cracks in Grid Resilience
One week after a catastrophic fire at the North Hyde electrical substation plunged the UK’s flagship Heathrow Airport into chaos, questions are mounting about what went wrong—and what the incident […] The post Heathrow Airport Transformer Fire Prompts Urgent Inquiry, Exposes Cracks in Grid Resilience appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Who really started the Heathrow fire?
The most logical way of looking at the fire at the busiest airport hub in the world, is to ask who benefits the most from it. Clue: it isn't Russia. The Heathrow airport fire took everyone by surprise as such events are not supposed to happen, given the safeguards in place in and round airports. Heathrow has its own electricity supply from the grid, which, on the day failed and so a seamless switch to a massive Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) w…
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UpstractA Fire Plunged Heathrow Into Darkness. A Nearby Data Center Kept Humming. Why?
A gleaming new data center sits less than half a mile from the electric substation where a fire plunged Heathrow Airport into darkness last week. The data center’s own power was also cut that day. But no one who relied on it would have noticed, thanks to a bank of batteries and backup generators designed to kick in instantly. Meanwhile it took officials at Europe’s busiest airport close to 18 hours to bring its terminals and runways back into op…
The fire was declared on Thursday night at an electric transformer station in Hayes, West London. The police had indicated as early as Friday that they had not found "a sign of intentional act"
U.K. police say no evidence of criminality in Heathrow Airport fire
British police said the substation fire, which caused Heathrow Airport to shut down for 18 hours last week, was no longer being treated as a potentially criminal matter after inquiries found no evidence to suggest the incident was suspicious.
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