Cypriots left without electricity
The whole island of Cyprus was this morning waking up without electricity after a problem at one of the island’s power plants resulted in the entire grid shutting down.
Cyprus Electricity Authority spokesman Costas Gavrielides said it was unclear what exactly caused the pre-dawn problem that led to the shut down of the oil-fired Dhekelia power station’s generators.
Mr Gavrielides said the problem resulted in a “chain reaction” failure of almost all the generators at the authority’s other power station, leaving the entire island without power.
He says crews are working to fix the problem and that power should be restored soon.
The outage has left traffic lights off-line, but police say no problems have been reported so far as the morning rush hour has yet to begin.
