Bold headline: A widespread power outage hits over 1,000 homes, highlighting a fragile grid.
A fault on high-voltage lines left more than a thousand homes south of Taunton in darkness this morning, February 15. The outage was first reported just before 7am and affected parts of the TA3 postcode area. At one point, 1,117 properties were disconnected from the power supply.
The National Grid reported that power was quickly restored to many affected properties. A message on the grid’s website stated: “We were alerted at 6:56am this morning and our engineers are working to get your electricity back on as quickly as possible. We’re sorry for the disruption.”
By 7:30am, around 83 properties remained without power, though crews continued working to restore service.
How this could affect you: outages like this remind us how dependent modern life is on a stable electricity network. When a fault occurs, restoration times can vary as engineers diagnose the issue and bring circuits back online safely.
Live updates:
- 08:01 — One property still without power at 8am; engineers have restored power to 1,116 of the affected homes.
- 07:51 — The National Grid expects the issue to be resolved by 8:30am; as of 7:50am, 66 properties remained offline.
- 07:33 — Affected postcodes include TA3 7AP, TA3 7AR, TA3 7AW, TA3 7BU, TA3 7BX, TA3 7BY, TA3 7BZ, TA3 7DA, TA3 7DB, TA3 7DD, TA3 7DE, TA3 7DF, TA3 7DG.
- 07:32 — 83 properties still without power at 7:30am, even though the majority had been restored.
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