Power has been restored to 731 households in Katikati this afternoon, after the second outage in two days.
Powerco blamed an underground cable fault for a major outage that saw 789 customers lose power just after 9am yesterday.
Power was restored by evening, but about 12.30pm today Powerco disconnected about 731 of those customers again to allow for repairs.
The outage let crews safely repair the damaged cable believed to have caused yesterday's outage.
Power was restored just before 3pm.