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Thousands of Families in Haspengouw Lose Power for an Hour After High-Voltage Station Fault

From VRT NWS · () Dutch

Translated from Dutch and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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News Named sources Outcome reported
  • A fault at a high-voltage station in Alken cut power to several Haspengouw municipalities from 8:45 a.m.
  • Technicians rerouted the network, restoring electricity across the affected area after about an hour.

Several municipalities in Haspengouw spent an hour without electricity after a fault at a high-voltage station in Alken.

There was a fault at a high-voltage station in Alken, and as a result the wider region was without power from 8:45 a.m.

· Stijn FaelensFaelens explained the cause and timing of the regional outage.

The outage began at 8:45 a.m. and affected, among other places, Wellen, Nieuwerkerken, Sint-Truiden and Zepperen. Stijn Faelens said technicians managed to reroute the network quickly, restoring power by 9:45 a.m.

It is always inconvenient, of course. Fortunately, our technicians were able to reroute everything quickly, and after an hour everyone had power again.

· Stijn FaelensFaelens described the disruption and the restoration of electricity.
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Originally published by VRT NWS in Dutch. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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