{"id":120590,"date":"2025-11-06T06:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120590\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:29:12","slug":"far-north-plunged-into-massive-power-cut-more-than-23000-without-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120590\/","title":{"rendered":"Far North plunged into massive power cut, more than 23,000 without electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

\nThe extent of the outage.
\nPhoto: Supplied\n<\/p>\n

The Far North has been plunged into another massive power cut, with more than 23,000 homes and businesses without electricity.<\/p>\n

The power went out just after 5.20pm with the outage covering the entire southern part of the district, including the Bay of Islands, Kaikohe, South Hokianga and Whangaroa.<\/p>\n

According to Top Energy’s outage centre, the fault is on a sub-transmission feeder but the cause is not yet known.<\/p>\n

Fire crews were called to help them enter the building.<\/p>\n

FENZ initially sent two crews from Kaikohe and \u014ckaihau.<\/p>\n

There are no reports of fire and would be leaving the scene.<\/p>\n

It’s exactly the same area that was affected by a huge outage last Friday<\/a>, just six days ago.<\/p>\n

In that case the cause was a tree falling on a 33-kilovolt line near Mount Pokaka, south of Kerikeri, but it was not clear why that caused the Kaikohe substation to shut down, cutting power to more than half the district.<\/p>\n

The northern part of the district, including Doubtless Bay, Kaitaia, the Aupouri Peninsula and North Hokianga, still has power, in an apparent re-run of last week’s outage.<\/p>\n

More to come…<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The extent of the outage. Photo: Supplied The Far North has been plunged into another massive power cut,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-120590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}