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Northern Powergrid has restored power to 28,000 of the 38,000 customers who lost power this morning across its network due to lightning storms.
Power was disrupted in parts of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Teesside by intense lightning early this morning.
Engineers restored power by diverting electricity through alternative routes on its network where possible.
Northern Powergrid said it is continuing to monitor the weather and additional staff are working to repair the damage the lightning storms have caused.
It will also be taking out its helicopter if weather permits today to carry out network inspections.
Northern Powergrid’s head of network operations, Rod Gardner said: “We have invested in maintaining and upgrading our network but weather like the intense, sporadic lightning storms we saw this morning across parts of our region can cause damage to our power network.
“We’d like to reassure our customers that our engineers will continue to work throughout the day, diverting electricity through alternative routes on our network and coordinating repairs so we can restore power for customers who are still affected and we thank them for their patience.”
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