Residents in the Outram areas have had their mornings and evenings inconvenienced with a trio of rolling power cuts caused by a perfect storm of preparation for upgrades and damaged equipment. In a press release, Aurora said Monday’s first outage was caused by a cracked insulator, and the outage later that evening was to replace it. Usually in that case Aurora would be able to provide a back-up power supply. However, due to planned upgrades to the network, two of the three main lines were switched off. The planned upgrades would be to the Waipori Line, which runs from Berwick to Halfway Bush.
