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Power Failures

Volume 491: debated on Tuesday 21 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many (a) planned and (b) unplanned power cuts there have been by (i) region and (ii) London borough in each of the last five years. (266654)

[holding answer 26 March 2009]: A breakdown of planned and unplanned interruptions (counting each household or meter point without power as one interruption) for the last five years is shown in the following table.

The data shown are for EDF London Power Network (LPN) (the entire London distribution service area). Data by borough are not collected.

EDF (LPN)

2007-08

2006-07

2005-06

2004-05

2003-04

Unplanned interruptions

686,000

816,000

709,000

775,000

770,000

Pre-arranged interruptions

18,000

20,000

21,000

18,000

25,000