Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as Cast_Iron
breathed:

Initial investigation into the London blackout revel the cause.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3096098.stm

Wrong equipment caused blackout

Seems to have changed now, but earlier versions of that piece had a
picture of the burnt out wreck of what looked like a very large
transformer with a couple of dodgy-looking air-con cooling units bolted
on to it.

Was that in any way connected with the fault, or just a random pic of
wrecked HV gear?

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