Almost 150 homes near Inverness without power after being hit by unplanned SSEN outage
Almost 150 homes and businesses in the Inverness area are without electricity this morning after being hit by an unplanned outage.
The power cut, which was reported to Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) at 7.28am, is understood to be affecting post codes in IV1 and IV2 areas, with customers likely to be experiencing a loss of power in Craggie, Newton, and as far south as Aberarder, Errogie and Farraline.
SSEN say the power cut is currently known to be affecting 198 homes, but is “affecting a large area, and it’s likely several streets in your area are affected by the same power cut.”
A statement on SSEN Power Track said: “We have engineers on the way and they are due to arrive in the local area at 8.15am.
“Once they arrive, they will get straight to work on investigating the fault and attempt to restore power.
“At this stage we are aiming to have power restored by 12pm.”
“The cause of the power cut is a fault on our overhead network. This is the most common type of fault we see, and our teams are very experience in dealing with these issues.
“In most cases, our engineers are able to get power back on by simply replacing a fuse at the local substation, however, if the fault is severe, this may take us longer to fix.”
