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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times

Power restored for hundreds of homes and State Circle

Power has been restored to traffic lights on State Circle and more than 1700 homes around Canberra following outages this morning.

A spokesperson for Evo Energy said an outage occurred at around 4.30am and lasted around two and a half hours.

It affected 1707 customers across Acton, Barton Capital Hill, Deakin, Forrest, Parkes, Griffith and City and included traffic lights at State Circle.

"The cause of this outage was a fault of the network," a spokesperson said.

They added that power was restored at around 7am.

Earlier, police were on site to manage traffic around State Circle, where traffic and street lights were reportedly out.

Picture by Sitthixay Ditthavong
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