Some houses in Triq San Nikola, Sliema have been without electricity since Monday evening, more than 40 hours.

Enemalta was informed about this issue very early on and has since been updated about this ongoing situation by residents.

Not all houses on this street have experienced a 40-hour power cut; some houses had electricity for short periods of time, whilst others only had access to a very low voltage, which meant they could not use any appliances as this would trip the circuit breaker.

One resident who spoke to The Malta Independent said that they had to throw out around €300 worth of food, but they still felt that they were underestimating. They made it clear that they shall be listing down everything they lost to receive compensation from the government.

Another resident said that they were able to salvage some of their food by moving it to another freezer in another house where there was electricity.

Throughout the day and night, an alarm of one of the houses has gone off a number of times, supposedly due to the power cuts, which wakes up neighbours in the middle of the night, one resident said.

On Monday night and Tuesday night, at the height of Malta’s heat wave, one resident said they resorted to sleeping close to the floor right next to a window, all residents said that they had sleepless nights. Others were lucky enough to leave their house and sleep elsewhere.

Malta has been suffering from frequent and long power cuts all over the island for ten days.