Snow clearing at the off-grid masts

13 December 2022

Sunrise over the Pentland Hills at the Colzium mast.

We are currently facing issues across a number of off-grid sites on the network, due to low winds, very low temperatures, the general lack of daylight (and sunlight) and then the snow which is now covering the solar panels.
 
Whilst it is likely to affect some customers more than others, when there are issues at masts, traffic re-routes over other links where possible. This however puts more load on those links leading to congestion.

For those customers who connect to off-grid masts, we’ll try to keep things running, but the ground conditions make it very difficult to reach some of these sites safely, and when we do manage, it takes considerably longer than usual.

This photo was taken at sunrise this morning at the off grid Colzium mast on the Pentland Hills looking back towards Peebles. Snow now cleared and ice scraped, now onto the next one!

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