Incidents recorded in Malta across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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Police confirmed that a fire developed at the Gżira substation in Triq Sir Patrick Stuart. Enemalta said a small fire started at about 1.00pm at a substation in a private apartments block. Civil Protection attended and the flames were extinguished shortly...
Times of Malta reported on 10 February 2023 that power had been restored after an interconnector tripped. The report's web address refers to a nationwide power cut, but the full article was not available, so the scale of the outage, which link tripped, and...
A December 2022 report says the 98-kilometre Malta-Italy subsea interconnector, which links Malta to the European electricity grid in Sicily, was damaged in a storm by a vessel anchor in March. Enemalta has said electricity from the interconnector forms...
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A fire broke out at the Enemalta substation in Mellieħa, Malta. Because the substation is located directly behind the Solana Hotel & Spa, staff and residents of the hotel were evacuated as a precaution. The fire damaged the low voltage panel, though the...
MaltaToday reported a substation fire at St Philip's Hospital in Malta, under a headline stating that no one was injured. The full article could not be retrieved, so this entry relies on the headline and feed summary only. The cause of the fire, the extent of...
Enemalta reported that an electricity outage in Malta was caused by a failure of the interconnector on the Sicily side. The Malta grid is linked to the European grid through Sicily. The extent of the outage, its duration, the number of customers affected and...
On 22 January 2019, a substation was reported to have exploded in Birkirkara, Malta. Police said the incident was in Triq Ċeżalpina, where there was a loud noise and some smoke. Police, an ambulance and a fire engine attended. No one was reported hurt. The...
Firefighters were reported to have been called to a substation in Tigné, Malta, after reports of smoke at the site. Only a headline level report is available. The cause, the extent of any damage, whether power supplies were affected, and whether there were...
A report dated 7 February 2017 said Malta had been hit by a second nationwide blackout, described in the report address as a four-hour power cut. The outage was blamed on the interconnector, and a minister was reported to have apologised. The article text was...
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