Power has been restored after outages caused by overhead lines damage affected a wide area south of Dunedin, including Waihola and Taieri Mouth.
A Waihola resident told the ODT power was restored around 9.15pm after being out for three hours.
PowerNet posted a statement to its Facebook page at 5.42pm today that power was off for all of Waihola and for Akatore, Berwick, Henley, Milburn, Taieri Beach, Taieri Ferry, Taieri Mouth and Toko Mouth.
The cause of the outage was overhead lines damage.
Power was also out for Waitahuna, Lawrence and other surrounding areas.
