Power restored in Mount Maunganui after outage affects more than 1000 Powerco customers

There was a power outage in Mount Maunganui this morning. Photo / Powerco

Power has been restored in Mount Maunganui after more than 1000 customers were affected by an outage this morning.

A Powerco spokesperson said the outage in Mount Maunganui began about 6.50am this morning with 1132 customers disconnected.

Of those, 1107 were reconnected by 8.26am, the remaining 25 were reconnected by about midday.

The cause of the outage was a faulty conductor, which Powerco crews have now repaired.