Enemalta Corporation apologised to residents of Hamrun, Gwardamangia, Pieta and Marsa yesterday, who have recently been affected by three power failures. These three power outages were caused by three separate faults on different parts of the system.

On Wednesday, 20 June, a fault occurred on a buried cable between Marsa Federated Mills sub station and Pieta Housing Estate sub station. This caused a tripping of the feeder supply to the sub station ring, resulting in a number of sub stations being without supply. Once the fault had been located and isolated, these substations were re-supplied from alternative sources. On Thursday, 21 June, another fault occurred on a buried cable on this circuit, this time between Gwardamangia Medical Stores sub station and Gwardamangia -– Edgar Ferro sub station, which are part of the same sub station ring affected by the fault on Wednesday. Again, the fault had to be located and isolated before supply could be restored to the substations in the ring. The total outage duration for these two faults was approximately three hours. On Monday at 6.11pm, a fault occurred on a termination inside the switchgear installed at Hamrun Mile End substation, which is also part of the substation ring previously affected. This fault was localised and isolated and supply to all the affected substations was restored within 90 minutes. As a result of repairs to the switchgear inside this sub station, power in the area connected to the sub station was restored six hours after the fault occurred.