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Electricity supply to parts of Zebbug – including Marsalforn, Xaghra, Xewkija and Nadur in Gozo, “will be restored as soon as ongoing underground cable repairs are completed during the day” (Saturday) Enemalta said.
In a statement, Enemalta said that on Friday night, the Company registered seven principal disturbances in the country’s high voltage network, mostly caused by underground cable faults.
In some of these outages, it said that the Company’s engineers and technicians restored supply to the affected customers in a short time by using alternative network connections in the same area.
Electricity supply to customers in parts of Dingli, Mdina, Rabat, Mtarfa, Ta’ Qali, Kalkara, Vittoriosa and Cospicua in Malta will be restored as soon as ongoing underground cable repairs are completed during the day.
Enemalta CEO Jonathan Cardona said that the Company is allocating “significant additional resources, and supporting its technical teams to repair damaged cables in the shortest time possible, so that the network’s flexibility and resilience can be restored.”
He added that, “repairing cable faults is a lengthy process involving several teams of specialised workers and contractors, to locate the exact fault location along the underground cable’s route beneath local roads, excavate the location and then repair and test the damaged cable, so that it can once again be used to supply electricity to thousands of customers.”
Customers experiencing such difficulties can inform Enemalta by directly reporting the fault through the website’s fault reporting tool – enemalta.com.mt/report-power-cut-form/ by calling the Company’s customer care team on 8007 2224 or the Servizz.Gov Helpline 153.
The public can subscribe to the Enemalta SMS notification service by sending an SMS with the account holder’s ID Card number, on 79052492.
Live updates on electricity supply disruptions are also available on the Company’s website – https://www.enemalta.com.mt/planned-power-cuts/.
