AN UNPLANNED powercut left hundreds of residents without power, today (Saturday, July 22).

193 customers in Holyport, near Maidenhead have been affected in an unplanned outage today.

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) were first notified of the outage at around 7am today.

UPDATE: The power has restored in the area.

See the full list of affected postcodes:

  • SL6 2HY
  • SL6 2JB
  • SL6 2JD
  • SL6 2JE
  • SL6 2JF
  • SL6 2JG
  • SL6 2JH
  • SL6 2JQ
  • SL6 2NA
  • SL6 2NB
  • SL6 2ND
  • SL6 2NF
  • SL6 2NH
  • SL6 2NJ
  • SL6 2NL
  • SL6 2NQ
  • SL6 2US

A notice on the SSEN site said: "We're sorry for the loss of supply. We currently have a fault affecting the areas listed.

"Our engineers are on site working hard to get the power back on as quickly as they can.

"If you need more information, please call us on 105 or send us a message on Facebook or Twitter (@ssencommunity) and quote reference 'ME8916'."

Updates to follow.