{"id":288388,"date":"2026-02-17T14:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288388\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:37:14","slug":"sunlive-power-back-after-outage-hits-741-properties-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288388\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Power back after outage hits 741 properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power has been restored to hundreds of properties in the Mount Maunganui.<\/p>\n<p>In an updated statement, Powerco said it was investigating the cause of a power outage that affected 741 customers in Mt Maunganui at 11.25am.<\/p>\n<p>Bayfair Shopping Centre was one of the properties affected.<\/p>\n<p>Centre manager Steve Ellingford said at around midday the power had been out for about 30 minutes at the shopping centre.<\/p>\n<p>He said most stores made their own decisions during an outage, with many choosing to close doors for security.<\/p>\n<p>Customers largely waited around the centre, as outages were typically brief, Ellingford said.<\/p>\n<p>He said police were onsite to provide support.<\/p>\n<p>Powerco said power was restored to all affected customers by 12.25pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260217-Power-Cut.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>A number of properties have been affected by the outage. Image \/ Powerco<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Power has been restored to hundreds of properties in the Mount Maunganui. In an updated statement, Powerco said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-288388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288388","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=288388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}