Power failure cost city council more than £50,000
BBCA fault in the electrical systems at Nottingham City Council's headquarters meant a power cut took about a week to restore and cost the authority tens of thousands of pounds.
On 12 March, a "once-in-a-lifetime" electrical failure caused power to go out at Loxley House for days, causing an "unprecedented loss" of core IT systems and disruption to services from waste collections to job centre appointments.
The authority said while the emergency generator was fuelled and operational, a fault prevented power from reaching the network.
A Freedom of Information request submitted by the Local Democracy Reporting Service has found the total cost of the power cut was more than £50,000.
The council's corporate landlord services spent £43,948 on the outage, while its IT department spent £8,032.
One of the government-appointed officials overseeing improvements previously said the outage exposed the need for a "critical change" in improving IT infrastructure.
The council said measures had been taken since to "strengthen electrical resilience, improve server redundancy, and further enhance the council's emergency planning and communication systems".
The costs included a high voltage specialist employed at a cost of £2,000, and a supplier to design an electrical tripping unit costing £1,000.
Council chief executive Sajeeda Rose previously told the BBC the chain of events which led to the disruption could not have been predicted.
"The building is 25 years old and we will find elements that we wouldn't have been able to predict as part of general maintenance," she said.
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