Hundreds of homes and businesses have lost power in the Shanklin area this morning (Wednesday).
A total of 123 postcodes in the PO37 region have been affected by the outage, which rendered properties without electricity at 11:39.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks are aware of the fault and engineers are being deployed.
It is currently unknown when exactly power will be restored – little comfort to the businesses now struggling to operate at one of the busiest times of the year. However, there is a suggestion that supplies will be back online by 15:00 this afternoon.
UPDATE @ 13:20 – A total of 1,600 properties have been affected by today’s outage, although power has now been restored to all but around 500 customers.
Engineers are still investigating the cause.
A spokesperson for SSEN has said:
“We’d like to sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused by today’s fault and thank the local community for their patience as our teams work to restore supplies as quickly as possible. If anyone requires further assistance, please call us on our power cut helpline, 105.”
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For further information about this power cut call the dedicated helpline by dialling 105.
Alternatively, you can send SSEN a message on Facebook or Twitter (@ssencommunity).
App: Did you know SSEN also have a mobile phone app where you can report, locate, track and subscribe to faults in your area?
Just shows how our Island infrastructure copes when it’s busy. More houses??
It must be a competition to find out what is the worst Utility Company. Hard to choose between SSEN and Southern Water at the moment
Gives a whole new meaning to the Postcode Lottery
Sounds a bit like ‘buyer beware’ if anyone is considering purchasing a new build on the Island! Nice home but might suffer from grey water backing up in the system, flooding during extreme weather, power cuts, possible Landslips and god only knows what else may befall someone with a few hundred thousand pounds to spare.
Can we have the timetable of the planned power cuts so we can plan ahead?
God help us when we are all forced to have electric cars !!!!