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Preparedness AssessmentPrepare3, 7 and 14 days without power or water
Threat status:NormalElevatedSevere

Power cut risks

updated 11 Nov 20:55
Power cuts nowNormal
Customers off supply6,484on unplanned cuts
Unplanned cuts open649 opened in the last hour
Largest cut4,931customers, EX32 (NGED)

Normal means fewer than 20,000 customers off on unplanned cuts nationally; widespread from 20,000; severe from 100,000. 13 planned outages are also open. The map below shows every open cut; the overview map only marks postcode areas where cuts are serious or widespread.

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Dashed edge: planned, or placed at the district centre.
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Boundaries: Office for National Statistics, OGL v3. Postcode areas are approximate.

Power cuts: last 7 and 30 days

Unplanned incidents only, by the day they started (UTC). SP Energy Networks publishes no customer counts.

Incidents opened per day

UKPNNGEDNPGSPENSSEN
02004006005 Nov · UKPN: 1045 Nov · NGED: 705 Nov · NPG: 435 Nov · SPEN: 565 Nov · SSEN: 15 Nov6 Nov · UKPN: 936 Nov · NGED: 626 Nov · NPG: 516 Nov · SPEN: 446 Nov7 Nov · UKPN: 767 Nov · NGED: 407 Nov · NPG: 437 Nov · SPEN: 347 Nov · SSEN: 27 Nov8 Nov · UKPN: 678 Nov · NGED: 388 Nov · NPG: 568 Nov · SPEN: 318 Nov9 Nov · UKPN: 1059 Nov · NGED: 539 Nov · NPG: 509 Nov · SPEN: 439 Nov · SSEN: 119 Nov10 Nov · UKPN: 12110 Nov · NGED: 7210 Nov · NPG: 5410 Nov · SPEN: 5310 Nov · SSEN: 10610 Nov11 Nov · UKPN: 10011 Nov · NGED: 5011 Nov · NPG: 3911 Nov · SPEN: 3211 Nov · SSEN: 10611 Nov

Customers affected per day (max reported per incident)

UKPNNGEDNPGSPENSSEN
020k40k60k5 Nov · UKPN: 9,3095 Nov · NGED: 30,6505 Nov · NPG: 12,3585 Nov6 Nov · UKPN: 17,7226 Nov · NGED: 6,0196 Nov · NPG: 12,6376 Nov7 Nov · UKPN: 4,0377 Nov · NGED: 5,1617 Nov · NPG: 11,2507 Nov8 Nov · UKPN: 4,4688 Nov · NGED: 5,4978 Nov · NPG: 11,9888 Nov9 Nov · UKPN: 7,3349 Nov · NGED: 5,6709 Nov · NPG: 2,8859 Nov · SSEN: 1709 Nov10 Nov · UKPN: 13,97210 Nov · NGED: 7,64910 Nov · NPG: 5,83410 Nov · SSEN: 15,83810 Nov11 Nov · UKPN: 3,33811 Nov · NGED: 8,33611 Nov · NPG: 7,06111 Nov · SSEN: 6,82911 Nov

Customers off supply over time (unplanned, per poll)

UKPNNGEDNPGSPENSSEN
010k20k30k5 Nov6 Nov7 Nov8 Nov9 Nov10 Nov11 Nov

Duration of closed incidents, hours

median90th percentile (one in ten lasts longer)
05101520UKPN · median: 2.4UKPN · 90th percentile (one in ten lasts longer): 14.2UKPNNGED · median: 4.1NGED · 90th percentile (one in ten lasts longer): 13.4NGEDNPG · median: 2.9NPG · 90th percentile (one in ten lasts longer): 9.9NPGSPEN · median: 2.1SPEN · 90th percentile (one in ten lasts longer): 7.0SPENSSEN · median: 3.0SSEN · 90th percentile (one in ten lasts longer): 16.2SSEN
National detailPower cuts

Power cuts

GREEN · Normalas of 2026-11-11 20:55 UTC (2 min ago)
Customers off supply
6,484
24 h -4,529 · 7 d +5,006
Open unplanned incidents
64
24 h -14 · 7 d +14
Opened in the last hour
9
Largest open incident
4,931 customers
Planned outages open
13
Outage history held
15 days

Covers the operators listed under By operator; Electricity North West is not collected. SP Energy Networks publishes no customer counts.

Unplanned incidents first seen per day

3582026-10-272026-11-11peak 4262026-10-27: 2562026-10-28: 2212026-10-29: 3052026-10-30: 3222026-10-31: 1962026-11-01: 1822026-11-02: 2912026-11-03: 3102026-11-04: 2782026-11-05: 2812026-11-06: 2592026-11-07: 1982026-11-08: 1962026-11-09: 2592026-11-10: 4262026-11-11: 358

By operator

OperatorOpen unplannedCustomersPlanned openTime last poll
NGED115,089711 Nov 20:55
NPG11899111 Nov 20:55
SSEN15400311 Nov 20:55
UKPN2196111 Nov 20:55
SPEN60111 Nov 20:55

Largest open incidents

OperatorDistrictCustomersTime startedCause
NGEDEX324,93111 Nov 17:12HV UNDERGROUND
NPGHU1121811 Nov 17:10The power cut affecting your property has been caused by an unexpected
NPGLS2518611 Nov 17:18The power cut affecting your property has been caused by an unexpected
SSENDT918311 Nov 20:19–
NGEDPL1510111 Nov 13:27HV OVERHEAD
NPGTS1510011 Nov 09:33The power cut affecting your property has been caused by an unexpected
NPGNE408711 Nov 11:17The power cut affecting your property has been caused by an unexpected
NPGBD17811 Nov 20:13The power cut affecting your property has been caused by an unexpected
UKPNE16411 Nov 13:17We're investigating an electricity cable that has been damaged, causin
NPGDN55411 Nov 10:44The power cut affecting your property has been caused by an unexpected

Districts with most cuts 30d

DistrictUnplanned cutsCustomers
TN34191,315
NW617336
CR016256
ME13140
DA313268
ML1130
YO25126,479
PE13122,854
HD8121,447
IP1312567

Source: UK Power Networks live faults · CC BY 4.0; Supported by NGED Open Data · NGED Open Data Licence; Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data · Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0; SP Energy Networks outage data · CC BY 4.0; SSEN Real Time Outage Dataset · CC BY 4.0