The thunderstorm knocked out power to 43,000 households – Norra Västerbotten

Just before 20:00 thunderstorm struck out power in a large proportion of households in the municipality of Skellefteå.
 Even Norran hit, which made the news work suffers.

According to Skellefteå Kraft, these are of a lightning strike in Rengård, which caused a widespread power outage.

Almost 43 000 customers were affected.

Skellefteå Kraft announced that it is working hard to locate and fix the problems.

Skellefteå Kraft has updated its website 21:41:

“We currently have a large disruption that affects many of our customers. The fault is located and staff are working to fix this. The disturbance occurred: 2016-07-31 19:50. “

When the fault should be completely resolved, there is no information.

Update 22:05:

Now announces Skellefteå Kraft to 11,000 customers still without electricity. Others should have received back the power. Households that are still affected are in the area between Burtrask against Lövånger and the area around Bastuträsk and around Fällfors.

Update 22:43:

It should now be about 7500 customers still without electricity in the area of ​​Burtrask against Lövånger and Lövånger against Ånäset. The errors should be corrected before midnight, announces Skellefteå Kraft.

As long as there is lightning, there is some risk of new, local power outages.

Update 01:24:

the disturbance in Central district and Burtrask area remains. Skellefteå Kraft announces that they have no återkopplingstid, but announced that they will continue to work to correct the error.