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SSE still has to reconnect power to 1,150 homes following significant storm damage to the network last week.
SSE’s subsidiary Scottish Power Hydro Electric Power Distribution (SHEPD) said it had hoped to reconnect all of the 1,200 customers still without power by midnight last night, but poor weather conditions have hampered progress.
The ‘small pockets’ of customers still affected should be reconnected by the end of Monday, SSE said.
SSE customers still without power are mainly located in rural areas with 350 customers located around both Dingwall and Wick, 250 in the Inverness area and 200 on the Western Isles.
SHEPD boosted the number of engineers working to restore power by drafting in a total of 200 additional staff from SHEPD’s sister company in England and from other electricity network operators around the UK to deal with the storm damage.
Electricity to 120,000 customers has been restored since the storms hit on Thursday night, despite what SSE has said were “atrocious weather conditions” over the weekend.
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