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Re:Dancing starling spectacle caused power cuts in Scottish ... by arethuza on Thursday June 09, 2022 @06:37AM (#31679581)
I live in rural Scotland and we had a mild problem with our electricity supply - our lights were flickering slightly, nobody else noticed but it was really annoying me.

I contacted the electricity supplier and they had a team come out within 24 hours - which rather surprised me. Turns out there was arcing at a junction box in the supply outside of our property which they fixed pretty quickly - presumably they react to things like that promptly due to potential fire risks.

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Re:Dancing starling spectacle caused power cuts in Scottish ... by spywaregorilla on Thursday June 09, 2022 @07:51AM (#31680025)
Most utilities are very responsive to customer complaints in my experience. It's often the only signal they have of something being wrong short of a fuse breaking and completely dropping the power. If you don't have smart meters giving real time data there's no way to know about this.
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Re:Dancing starling spectacle caused power cuts in Scottish ... by arethuza on Thursday June 09, 2022 @08:05AM (#31680153)
We've had two attempts to have a smart meter installed - each time they come round, check the mobile phone signal strength and go away again....
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