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IN FULL: Hundreds of homes across Aberdeenshire without power amid weather chaos

Ballater power cut
Residents in Ballater have been left without power due to adverse weather. Image: Supplied.

Hundreds of homes were left without electricity as torrential rain continued to cause disruption across Aberdeenshire overnight.

SSEN has announced households and businesses in several locations across the region will have no power supply tonight due to a “fault” on their network.

The Met Office’s amber weather warning was in place until 9pm last night, with heavy rain causing further chaos in north-east communities throughout the night.

Households in Ballater and the surrounding areas have been left without power amid weather chaos. Image: SSEN/Map.

Rest centres across Aberdeenshire – including Victoria Hall in Ballater – have been opened to help residents and businesses left waterlogged.

A total of 581 homes in Ballater and the surrounding areas spent the evening in the dark as engineers worked to resolve the issue “as quickly as they can”.

While about half were reconnected to the grid by 8.30pm, many were left without any power overnight. It is expected that the remaining postcodes in the Banchory area will be turned back on by noon on Saturday.

Residents in 37 postcodes around Stonehaven also had no power supply for about four hours. They were all reconnected to the grid at around 8pm.

Meanwhile, there have been power cuts in another 58 postcodes in the Insch area.

A message on the SSEN website said: “We are sorry for the loss of supply. We currently have a fault affecting the areas listed. Our engineers are working hard to get power back on as quickly as they can.”


Full list of postcodes still affected:

AB31 5BP
AB31 5HS
AB31 5HU
AB31 6HX
AB31 6LD
AB31 6LE
AB31 6LH
AB31 6LJ
AB31 6LL
AB31 6NH
AB31 6NJ
AB31 6NL
AB31 6NN
AB31 6NY
AB31 6PQ
AB31 6PR
AB31 6PS
AB31 6PT
AB31 6XF

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