Power outage in Zurich city centre is fixed

a power failure, just in time for Rush Hour In Parts of downtown Zurich, the lights went out on early Wednesday evening, shortly before 17 PM. Also at the main train station it was dark. The reason for this is not yet known.

in accordance with the electricity works of the city of Zurich EWZ the quarters Wipkingen were Affected, Unterstrass and Oberstrass, including Central and Escher-Wyss-Platz. The professionals were able to supply the affected areas from other sources, again with electricity.

@power failure @the city of ZUERICH. In the area of Wipkingen, Unterstrass and Oberstrass, including the Central power is out. Specialists from EWZ. It made switching to the area as quickly as possible.

— EWZ (@ewz_energie) 27. March 2019

The disruption lasted a little more than an hour. To 18.06 at the EWZ reported that the whole area is again supplied with power. Many Commuters had to change to replacement buses for the failed Trams. The rail Traffic was not affected by the power outage. According to the SBB was at the main station but some of the lighting.

#a power failure @the city of ZUERICH From 18.06 at the whole area could be supplied. The cause is still unknown. Thank you @SchutzRettungZH for the support.

— EWZ (@ewz_energie) 27. March 2019

praise to the EWZ employees

as of 17: 30 began the EWZ employees to provide first areas to be re-energized. "To 18.06 the whole town had electricity," says EWZ-speaker Harry Graf to www.tagesanzeiger.ch. The reason for the Problem was probably in the factory and the Latvians. This had to extricate the firefighter from smoke, before the EWZ employees could look around in there, says Graf. The exact cause of the outage is not yet known. The count praises the EWZ employees, which had quickly been and a great effort would have done. Finally, the failure of the stupidest time of the day happened.

against 17.50 o'clock at the Central station power, such as readers ' reports. Also, the EWZ confirmed that the first areas were re-supplied.

#a power failure @the city of ZUERICH. The first area has already been re-supplied. Unfortunately, the area at the Escher-Wyss-Platz affected. The cause and duration are still undetermined.

— EWZ (@ewz_energie) 27. March 2019

The station was supplied during the fault with emergency power. There were individual failures, and track changes.

#sbb #total failures #of power failure pic.twitter.com/6kEeYVyEN7

— SBB disorders (@SBB_distortion) 27. March 2019

readers in the various Districts reported the power failure.

@ewz_energie power failure at the Schaffhauserplatz? At my house the power has gone and the lights outside don't work anymore.

— Alexander Sautter (@asautter) 27. March 2019

@ewz_energie power failure in Wipkingen?

— Claudia (@happyrun lucky) 27. March 2019

On Twitter, the power failure with a sense of Humor is:

@ewz_energie thank you, now proved to be unnecessary, at least the thing with the vacuuming??????????? #Power failure #Zurich pic.twitter.com/s7ag4kvdE9

— Laszlo Schneider (@super Laszlo) 27. March 2019

We are currently only available via smoke signal but already know the reason for the #Blackout #blackout in #Zurich. pic.twitter.com/fCN8o8zDLF

— cluster plan (@Scatter diagram) 27. March 2019

Maybe preferred the @ewz_energie just the #EarthHour2019? #Power failure #Zurich

— Christoph Brunner Caffi ???? (@brunnercaffi) 27. March 2019

#a power failure over a large area. I've barricaded myself with a gas stove and biscuits in the basement. if it is a 30' better, I'll eat the cat.

— Knackeboul (@Knackeboul) 27. March 2019

Created: 27.03.2019, 18:49 PM