Nasty stuff…(
The highest for me was 132kV at a steel works.
The T2 energy station which is sited in Heathrow and powered with woodchip was designed to provide heating and some electricity to terminals 2 and 5.
The North Hyde substation over 5 miles away provides electricity to a large chunk of West London.
I was not referring to the substation. I was explaining the function of the T2 biomass energy centre.
Yes, others have mentioned that too. But could such chip operation cause such extensive damage ?
It didn’t. It was nothing to do with the substation fire. It continued working.
So why the extreme fire if it was just a woodchip plant? And that it needed the entire Heathrow complex needed to shut down?
the power plant that was on fire isn’t powered by woodchips but by the national power grid.
The woodchip-powered energy centre in T2 has nothing to do with the fire.
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Thanks Annie…
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Something is very fishy about this whole episode…
I don’t think we are getting the full story… 
I agree, Mr Fox. For, me it is the scale of the issue given that Heathrow was completely shut down.
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Yes that’s what makes me suspicious Besoeker. Something as important as the busiest airport in Europe is shut down for 24 hours because of a power outage just doesn’t sit right with me.
Even our local hospital can be up and running in minutes during a power failure without even affecting the computers which are on a fail safe system.
Yes, I wonder…
As it happens my sister is in hospital and they had a power failure a day or so ago. I don’t know if it was her ward or the whole hospital but it was about five minutes before it came back on. Hospitals need emergency systems. Heathrow didn’t…
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it’s exposed a weakness that will now be fixed. The insurance payout will be astronomical. I’d hate to be the accountant having to work any of that out.
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