Ferryhill and parts of Broomhill in Aberdeen have been plunged into darkness following a power cut.
Residents in Holburn Street, near Willowbank Road, described a “huge power cut” shortly before 9pm on Wednesday.
Engineers arrived at the scene 25 minutes later to begin repair works.
Traffic lights, street lights, offices and homes were all without power.
SSEN said that 2219 customers were affected by the outage, and 89 postcode areas in the city were without power.
They said on the “rare occasions” there is a fault, their priority is to restore customers’ supplies as safely and as quickly as possible.
SSEN issues apology
Power was restored by 10.35pm on Wednesday night.
A SSEN spokeswoman: “We would like to apologise to everyone who was impacted by last night’s power cut and assure them that our teams in the city did all they could to restore supplies as safely and as quickly as possible.”
The company is now investigating the cause of the fault.
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