Map showing area affected by an unplanned power outage.
Map showing area affected by an unplanned power outage.
Almost 2000 homes in the Glen Massey and Ngāruawāhia regions woke this morning to an unscheduled power outage, but were back on the grid by about 7.30am - well ahead of the estimated time.
The WEL Networks website reported the outage occurred at 6am and power was expectedto be restored at 11am.
More than 1900 homes were reported as being affected, by 7am that number had been updated to 1843 homes.
No reason for the outage was reported.
Also in Hamilton, an unscheduled outage occurred at 6.35am in Hillcrest.
