Power failure hits 238 homes in the Grantown on Spey area with Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) engineers en-route to tackle fault
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A power cut has hit 238 homes near Grantown on Spey.
The area affected lies mostly to the north and north-west of the town, but also south towards Nethy Bridge.
The electricity failure was reported to power company SSEN at 10.38 pm this morning, with engineers currently en-route to the area.
The energy provider expects to have the fault fixed by 1.30 pm this afternoon.
An SSEN spokesman said: “We're very sorry for the power cut and are aware of a fault on our main network affecting 238 homes.
“This is affecting a large area and it's likely several streets are affected by the same outage.
“We have engineers on the way and they are due to arrive at 11:45 am.
“Once they arrive, they will get straight to work on investigating the fault and attempt to restore power.
“The cause of this power cut is a fault on our overhead network.
“In most cases, our engineers are able to restore power by simply replacing a fuse at the local substation, however, if the fault is severe, this may result in us needing to make full repairs which can take longer.”
