Residents were left with low water pressure, some even without water on Tuesday, March 5 after one of the isolators at the Eikenhof Substation experienced a ‘flashover’ on Monday evening, March 4.

The faults near a Morwell substation lead to a large so-called flashover, smoke and a loud cracking noise, power company SP AusNet said. A flashover looks and sounds like an explosion, but SP AusNet ...

First, there was equipment failure at a substation supplying power at Carlton Hotel yesterday. Then a fire forced the evacuation of around 1,000 people from the Bras Basah building, while lights went ...