Waikato power outage/cut

A power cut could be due to a widespread outage, or a localised fault at your place.

The first thing to do is to contact either your network company below or ring us on 0800 496 496, 24 hours a day to report your power outage.

Hamilton, Maramarua, Huntly, Raglan, Te Kauwhata and Ngaruawahia
WEL Networks (external link) - outages page (external link) - 0800 800 935

Waipa
Waipa Networks (external link) - outages page (external link) - 0800 800 769

King Country
The Lines Company (external link) - outages page (external link) - 0800 367 328 emergency line or 0800 367 328 to report a fault

Rotorua and Taupo
Unison (external link)  - outages page (external link)  - 0800 286 476

South Waikato
Powerco (external link)  - outages page (external link) - Report faults to Meridian - 0800 496 496

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