24. August 2008
A squirrel climbed on the factory Aubrugg and came with two wires in contact. The result: 6000 connections in Oerlikon and Schwamendingen during one and a half hours without power.
23. September 2009
this Time it was a Dormouse that was in Höngg and zürich for a power failure to be responsible. He was climbing through a pipe into the plant. The result: 25 000 ports had during three hours of no electricity.
21. July 2010
It’s not always animals. 21. In July, it was a BlackBerry tree that burgeoned through the ventilation slot of a temporary transformer station. As a power rail touched, there was a short circuit. The result: a two-hour break, was affected exclusively by the Central station.
14. November 2011
A voltage transformer exploded. The result: a 24-600 ports in Höngg and zürich during one hour without electricity.
9. December 2015
Latvians Technical fault in the substation. The result: Three hours 000 connections in the circuit 5, the power went out at 21.
images: power failure of Zurich to a standstill
27. April 2016
Technical failure in work of Katz. The result: 5300 connections during one hour without electricity – including those on the Bahnhofstrasse.
4. September 2016
went Shortly after 21 clock in the cross-quarters of the street lights. A transformer had failed. The result: Even in the underground of the main train station it was dark.
24. October 2016
just in Time for the end of the autumn holidays, the third major power outage in that year took place in Zurich already. Thousands of people of Zurich had hardly arrived in their offices, as the lights went out and the computer screens were black. Were affected in the quarters Wiedikon and Enge, but also the city’s district 4.
13. May 2017
On Saturday evening, shortly before 20 o’clock the whole city was affected by a power failure. To the electricity supply all over again, it took almost two and a half hours. EWZ-specialists suspected a lightning strike in the high-voltage power line sub-station Fällanden as the cause for the failure.
27. March 2019
In a number of Districts of the city fell shortly before 17 hours the power. After about 65 minutes, everything was back in order. The trains of the SBB were not affected by the power outage, but the lights in the HB.
images: power outage in Zurich
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Created: 27.03.2019, 18:13 PM
