There was a major power cut in the north of Scotland at 8:30pm yesterday. At one time, as many as 200,000 homes were affected. According to the Scotsman, the current theory is that there may have been a problem in power lines near Inverness.
Teams of engineers are today out checking the thousands of kilometres of power lines across the region.
A spokesman for energy firm SSE said a helicopter was also assisting in the search for the cause.
He said: “Our engineers are still investigating the cause and location of the fault. It is a large geographical areas these guys have to search.
“Some times you really need to go out an inspect the lines by eye.”
It is understood engineers are concentrating their efforts on an area between Moray and Inverness.
However, over at the Scotland Against Spin Facebook page, speculation is rife that it may be something to do with the wind turbine fleet.
...having looked at yesterdays wind data something very strange happened at about 20.27.... that may have been the power cut which triggered it .. but wind dropped sharply.
Seems to me that [National Grid] were expecting a rise in wind speeds (which did come afterwards) and started to ramp down gas & coal in expectation of it, when the sudden lull arrived.
Intriguing!