A large-scale power cut is affecting numerous addresses in the South Wight this evening (Sunday).
People in Chale, Blackgang, Kingates, Bierley and the outskirts of both Niton and Whitwell are experiencing issues with their electricity supply.
Heavy rain and some blustery conditions have most likely been the cause of the unplanned outage.
The outage was logged at 20:59 with an engineer from Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks set to be sent out shortly once the issue has been assessed.
UPDATE @ 21:25 – SSEN has given an estimated restoration time of 01:00 tomorrow morning.
You can keep up to date with the status of the power cut here – https://powertrack.ssen.co.uk/powertrack#KC3491
Affected postcode areas
The following postcodes have been affected by this outage:
The following postcodes have been affected by this outage:
PO38 1SW
PO38 2AG
PO38 2BN
PO38 2BS
PO38 2BT
PO38 2BU
PO38 2BW
PO38 2BY
PO38 2DJ
PO38 2HA
PO38 2HB
PO38 2HD
PO38 2HE
PO38 2HH
PO38 2HJ
PO38 2HL
PO38 2HN
PO38 2HW
PO38 2JB
PO38 2JF
PO38 2NS
PO38 2NT
PO38 2NU
PO38 2NX
PO38 2NY
PO38 2NZ
PO38 2QF
PO38 2QH
PO38 2QJ
PO38 2QL
PO38 2QN
PO38 2QP
PO38 2QR
PO38 2QW
Keep safe out there lads you do a amazing job
Outage? Are we part of America now?
Get used to it, plenty more to come this Winter, so hey lets bring in unlimited newcomers to the UK to add to the energy consumption, that will help….. won’t it?
What the hell does a failure in the local power grid have to do with “newcomers”
Yet again Island Echo allows a post that is both racist and completely off-topic.
“WITHOUT POWER AS EVENING RAIN CAUSES ISSUES”
is the UK’s power infrastructure so bad now that it can’t handle a little rain…??
I know it’s been quite dry this year in general, but really? we should be used to a little rain!
sounds like everything else under this incompetent tory government,… it’s all about making profit for the rich, with no investment in maintenance of infrastructure 🙁
still, I suppose we’d better get used to it..
as long as people keep believing their lies & voting them in, nothing will change & everything will just keep slowly getting worse & worse (has anything actually got better in the last 12 years ??)
Thoes bloody tory’s started Covid then the war in Ukraine, and now the fuel crisis…they should hang their heads in shame….