A FAULT in the city’s underground electricity network which caused a blackout on Sunday afternoon was believed to be the cause of a more widespread outage on Tuesday morning.
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Almost 3000 homes and businesses in north Orange lost power at 4.55am on Tuesday, according to Essential Energy.
Service was restored to 913 homes and businesses by 6.21am, a further 195 at 6.46am, then 758 at 7.10am, 502 at 7.24am, and then progressively to another 354 by 9.27am.
The electricity network is currently routed around the faulty section of electricity network and crews will make repairs over the coming weeks.
- Essential Energy’s regional manager Mark Summers
More than 1,000 homes and businesses experienced a second unplanned power outage between 10.13am and 10.33am.
Power was restored to all homes and businesses at 11.08am and the fault was located near the corner of Kearneys and Broklands drives in a section of the underground electricity network.
It is believed Tuesday’s outage was the result of another underground electricity network fault which caused an unplanned power outage for 1,635 homes and businesses on Sunday.
“The electricity network is currently routed around the faulty section of electricity network and crews will make repairs over the coming weeks,” Essential Energy’s regional manager Mark Summers Summers said.
“We apologise for any inconvenience and thank customers for their understanding as we worked to restore power.”
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