Power cut in Rochdale town centre

Electricity North West is dealing with a power cut in Rochdale town centre

Over 200 homes and businesses in Rochdale town centre are currently without electricity (3pm, Wednesday 26 October).

The power cut – affecting 36 different postcodes in the OL16 1 area and the OL12 0NS area – was first reported to Electricity North West at 2.20pm.

As of 3.10pm, a team of engineers is on its way with an estimated time of restoration given as 5.20pm.

The Electricity North West website says: “This power cut has been caused by an unexpected incident on the high voltage cable that provides electricity to your home or business. We didn't know before your electricity went off that this was going to happen but now we know, rest assured we will get your power back on safely and as quickly as possible.

“Please be aware that all our time scales are estimated based on previous experience and may change if new information becomes available while our engineers are fixing the issue. With high voltage power cuts, we're often able to get many of the homes involved back on before our estimated time of restoration.”

Updates will be posted to the incident page on the Electricity North West website under Reference INC 124124965.

Postcodes affected:

OL16 1JG, OL16 1DX, OL16 1DW, OL16 1DB, OL16 1JJ, OL16 1BH, OL16 1DL, OL16 1DZ, OL16 1JP, OL16 1ER, OL16 1EP, OL16 1JZ, OL16 1JX, OL16 1ED, OL16 1BX, OL16 1EN, OL16 1JN, OL16 1EJ, OL16 1ES, OL16 1DF, OL16 1JW, OL16 1BZ, OL16 1BU, OL16 1BA, OL16 1JU, OL16 1YL, OL16 1XF, OL16 1EY, OL16 1AP, OL16 1BT, OL16 1RQ, OL16 1EA, OL16 1BL, OL16 1EE, OL16 1AE, OL16 1BN, OL12 0NS