On 1 September (date as reported, year not fully confirmed due to a discrepancy in source dating), the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was alerted at about 12.20pm to a fire at 43 Bukit Pasoh Road, the address of the Ee Hoe Hean Club in Chinatown. The...
Grid infrastructure incidents in Singapore
Grid infrastructure incidents recorded in Singapore, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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Singapore's grid operator SP Power Grid (SPPG) was fined a total of $1.75 million by the Energy Market Authority (EMA) for two separate substation fire incidents earlier in 2019. On 14 February, a fire at a substation near Carlton Hotel caused a power...
An electricity flashover, an abnormal electrical discharge, occurred at a substation located on the ground floor of Carlton Hotel in Bras Basah Road, Singapore. The flashover, caused by equipment failure, ignited a fire within the substation's switch room....
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A voltage transformer at a substation in Bright Hill, Singapore, is the likely cause of a power outage on 26 January 2019 that lasted about 1.5 hours and affected around 27,000 residents. According to preliminary investigations by the Energy Market Authority,...
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