People living in areas of Gżira, Sliema, St Julian’s, San Ġwann and the Gozitan villages of San Lawrenz, Għarb, Kerċem and parts of Għasri spent the night without power and still had no electricity as of 9am on Saturday.
Enemalta, the state-owned energy firm, said problems were due to faults on its high-voltage cable network and that alternative energy supplies were being used where possible but did not say when power would be returned to all affected areas.
Energy Minister Miriam Dalli said the infrastructural work needed to bring Malta’s electricity distribution network up to scratch will have to be done in phases. “We don’t have a supply problem. We have a distribution problem,” she said.
