Parts of Dunedin were plunged into darkness last night after an issue with the power network for the second time in weeks. A Dunedin City Council spokesman said the council was aware of outages involving streetlights last night and the cause was being investigated. Aurora Energy customer and connections manager Mark Pratt told the Otago Daily Times last week that there had also been issues on Tuesday March 24. Yesterday, streetlights were out from about 6.50pm to 8.10pm, and was an issue again with the ripple injector. However, streetlights were also out from 9pm until 9.30pm, an outage caused by a separate issue and a fault response crew was investigating, Aurora Energy said.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 09, 2026 09:52 UTC