Power has now been restored to hundreds of homes in Aberdeen following a power cut today.
Scottish Southern & Electric Networks (SSEN) reported the incident in Heathryfold at 10:39 am today.
A total of 639 properties were affected.
The blackout occurred at Heathryfold Circle and Auchmill Terrace, located between Bucksburn and Woodside districts.
Power is back in Heathryfold
Earlier today, SSEN website read: “We’re sorry for the loss of supply.
“Our engineers are on site working hard to get the power back as quickly as they can.”
The energy company further explained that 11 postcodes were affected.
A SSEN press officer has confirmed to the P&J that the issue is now solved.
“The power cut at Heathryfold does no longer show up on our system, which means the outage has been resolved,” the spokesman said.
He continued: “On the rare occasions the power goes off, our priority is to restore our customers’ supplies as safely and as quickly as possible.
“In the case of this morning’s power cut, our engineers were able to re-route supplies on to different parts of the network, restoring supplies in stages.”
SSEN apologies to customers after power cut
SSEN have released an statement to apologise for the issue.
“We would like to apologise to our customers in the Heathryfold area of Aberdeen for the interruption to their power supplies earlier today, and assure them that our engineers did all they could to get their power back on as safely and as quickly as possible.”
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