Hundreds of Highland homes without power after mix of unplanned and planned electricity cuts south of Inverness affecting Strathdearn, Lochindorb, Glen Urquhart and shores of Loch Ness

Hundreds of homes in Strathdearn were without electricity on Tuesday after a power cut in the early hours of the morning.

Just short of 300 properties suffered a power cut shortly after 5.30am. Engineers were understood to be on site at the time of writing and had earmarked a possible power restoration time of 11.30am - however, earlier in the morning this deadline was 9.30am, meaning the timeslot could yet slip further.

"We're very sorry for the power cut and are aware of a fault on our main network affecting 292 homes," said a spokesperson for Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN). "This is affecting a large area and it's likely several streets in your area are affected by the same outage."

The area affected by the power cut stretched from Shenachie, Moy and Lynebeg in the north, and south-west through Tomatin and on to Upper Strathdearn.

It was one of several power outages reported in the area at the time of writing, although these others were all described as "planned" outages by SSEN, whereas the cut in Strathdearn was unplanned.

The areas covered by the "planned" outages included 67 properties in an area stretching south from Lochindorb to Dulnain Bridge, and another affecting almost 400 homes in Glen Urquhart, between Urquhart Bay and an area in the west roughly halfway between Corrimony and Cannich. These were earmarked for power restoration times of 4pm and 2pm respectively.

And a third area affecting around three dozen properties on the north shores of the Black Isle was also being reported. Again, this was described as "planned" by SSEN. The company said it intended to restore power by 1pm or 4pm depending upon the location.

For the latest updates visit SSEN’s Powertrack webpage.

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