A powercut briefly left thousands of homes in South Wales without electricity in the early hours of Monday morning. At one stage, more that 3,500 properties were affected.
But by 4am Western Power Distribution (WPD) said it had restored power to 2,839 properties. However, it said that 736 properties were still without electricity in the Cwmbran area. WDP said it hoped to have power restored by 5.30am, but the incident appeared to have been resolved by 4.30am.
WDP said the outage was due to a fault on its high voltage network and that it was "working hard to resolve" the issue. WDP high voltage incidents "tend to be larger, affecting the wider area and could mean your neighbours are off supply too", say WDP.
In statement on its website, WDP said: "We are aware of this power cut incident which was raised at 3.50am this morning and our engineers are working to get the power returned as quickly as possible.
"We are sorry for any inconvenience this is causing you."
The postcodes affected were NP44 3FR, NP44 5UL, NP44 5UN, NP44 5UQ, NP44 5TZ, NP44 3FQ, NP44 5SD, NP44 5SG, NP44 5US, NP44 5SA, NP44 5UE, NP44 5UP, NP44 5UJ, NP44 5SF, NP44 5SB, NP44 5UD, NP44 5UR, NP44 5WA, NP44 5SE, NP44 5UF, NP44 5UG, NP44 5UH, NP44 5SH, NP44 3DH, NP44 3AJ, NP44 3LP, NP44 5AU, NP44 5AW, NP44 5TE, NP44 5YZ, NP44 3AH, NP44 3XA, NP44 5SR, NP44 3BA, NP44 3AL, NP44 5AS
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