North’s electricity woes continue into third day

Sporadic power cuts across the north continued into a third day on Sunday after an explosion at a substation on Friday had caused the entire grid to collapse.

The north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek’s general manager Dalman Aydin explained on Sunday that while the fault at the substation where the explosion occurred, just outside Morphou, has now been “resolved”, a fault has “persisted” at one of the north’s two power stations,