Deuba power outage: EFL cites safety reasons, no restoration time
Energy Fiji Limited (EFL) lists an unplanned PHD 1 power outage for safety reasons on 27 October 2026. Its affected-area list includes Deuba Primary School, Makosoi Housing, Riverside and Galoa, alongside other settlements and businesses. The operator gives a start time of 14:13 and no definite restoration timeframe.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: confirmed by the source · EFL lists a safety-related PHD 1 outage around Deuba and other named areas; no definite restoration timeframe or verified restoration.
Source moment: October 27, 2026 (date only, no time given)
In 20 seconds
EFL names Deuba and several other areas in its PHD 1 outage listing; no affected-customer total is supplied.
The operator gives safety reasons for the interruption, without identifying a specific trigger or equipment fault.
The listed start is 14:13 on 27 October; the table does not state a timezone or a definite restoration timeframe.
Areas named in the PHD 1 listing
Deuba Primary School, Makosoi Housing, Riverside and Galoa appear in the operator’s affected-area list. EFL also names other settlements and businesses. This identifies the areas covered by the notice, but does not establish the exact address boundary or that every building in each named area has lost supply. The listing provides no customer count.
The presence of a school or business in the area list does not establish a closure or suspension of services. There is also no verified basis here for inferring a water-service interruption. The reported impact is the electricity interruption described in the PHD 1 notice; wider operational effects remain unconfirmed.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Named areas
- Deuba Primary School, Makosoi Housing, Riverside, Galoa and other listed areas
- Customer count
- Not supplied by EFL
- Operator explanation
- Safety reasons; specific trigger unknown
- Start and restoration
- 27 October 2026, 14:13 as displayed; timezone unstated; no definite restoration timeframe
Safety explanation and an open restoration window
EFL describes the reason as safety, without specifying the underlying trigger or an equipment fault. Its table gives 14:13 on 27 October as the start and says there is no definite restoration timeframe. No verified restoration report is available in this account, so the absence of a forecast should not be read as evidence that electricity has returned.
The source table does not explicitly print a timezone. The displayed 14:13 time is retained as given, without an exact UTC conversion. The date of the listing and the time it was checked are separate from the reported outage start; neither establishes a repair completion time.
Preparing for an uncertain interruption
For preparation, the runtime calculator helps estimate battery support for selected devices. The internet backup planner and grid-down essentials guide offer further planning context. These resources cannot confirm an individual address’s electricity supply or determine when EFL will restore power.