Another widespread power outage left a large area of Central Otago in the dark overnight.

More than 7900 customers were affected by the power cut, which was the second widespread outage in four days.

The latest outage affected residents in Alexandra, Clyde, the Teviot Valley, Chatto Creek, Omakau, the Ida Valley and Maniototo. 

The outage happened about 11.45pm on Tuesday and, according to the Aurora Energy website, it was restored by about 6.30am today.

It is not yet known what caused the outage.

Last week’s outage, which happened on Friday late morning, affected almost 8000 customers, which extended from Clyde to Ettrick and Lauder Flat.

There are two main power lines that feed into those areas from the Clyde Grid Exit Point, where power is taken from the national grid.

One of those was out of service for planned maintenance at the request of Transpower.

However, the second line tripped, which caused last week’s unplanned outage to the region.

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