The Napier suburbs losing power for up to an hour on Tuesday night

The flooded Redclyffe substation, near Taradale, which was responsible for much of Napier and Hawke’s Bay’s power outage during Cyclone Gabrielle. Photo / Warren Buckland

Some Napier residents will be without power for up to an hour on Tuesday night while others will lose power for up to 10 minutes during maintenance work on a substation hit hard during the recent cyclone.

Different suburbs will have temporary power outages at different times as work is done on Redclyffe substation near Taradale, Unison has confirmed.

The power outages relate to maintenance being carried out by Transpower.

“Tonight’s scheduled outages will allow Transpower to complete necessary work at their Redclyffe substation as part of ongoing efforts to restore electricity supply in Hawke’s Bay back to pre-cyclone levels,” Jason Larkin, the Unison incident controller and general manager for commercial, said.

“There are four outages scheduled to take place across four different parts of the network this evening mostly in Napier and rural surrounds.

“Three of these will be short outages lasting up to ten minutes in length.

“The fourth outage scheduled from 11pm could last for up to an hour and will affect customers in south Taradale, parts of central Taradale and rural areas to the west and north of Napier including Puketapu, Dartmoor, Glengarry, Puketitiri and parts of Eskdale.”

He said customers should be notified by their retailer directly if they are affected by any of the outages, including the shorter 10-minute outages.

Some of the suburbs being impacted by the shorter 10-minute outages include the likes of Bluff Hill, Napier South, Whirinaki and Greenmeadows, between 10pm and 11pm on Tuesday and 4am and 5am on Wednesday for those areas.