NIE condemns a threat to one of its meter readers in the Craigavon area this morning.

If you have been travelling on the Doogary Road, Omagh recently you may have noticed a new bridge over the road. This scaffold bridge has been assembled to allow Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE), the network company, to connect a new overhead electricity line into the existing Omagh Main substation.

A ‘road train’ 60 metres in length wound its way through the streets of Belfast last night carrying essential electricity equipment to develop one of the city’s major substations. It represented over £3 million of infrastructure investment.

150 Coleraine homes in the Somerset, Greenhall Highway, Wheatsheaf Road and surrounding areas of Coleraine have signed up to the Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) ‘Shift & Save’ trial to get ‘Smart’ this year with their energy.

Ards Councillors visited Northern Ireland Electricity’s (NIE) Control Centre last week to understand how the company deals with power cuts and plans for emergencies.

Around 1,500 homes and businesses in the Mill Street area of Crumlin were left without electricity at 9:58 on Friday (20 January) following contractor damage to the underground electricity network. 

Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE), the network company, is inviting people in the Somerset, Greenhall Highway, Wheatsheaf Road and surrounding areas of Coleraine to get ‘Smart’ with energy this year. 

Repair teams from NIE, the electricity network company, set sail for Scotland this afternoon to help with the major network rebuild required following storms earlier this week.
 

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Around 35,000 people suffered power cuts during the recent severe weather according to the official figures issued by Northern Ireland Electricity, the network company, today.