Around 300 Dumfries and Galloway properties without power for sixth day after Storm Eowyn as utility boss visits region

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Around 300 properties across Dumfries and Galloway are without power for a sixth day following Storm Eowyn.Friday's winds - which were in excess of 90mph - saw more than 45,000 properties without power at one point.Engineers from Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) have been working round the clock to tackle the issue and by Wednesday morning there were just 303 homes still to be reconnected.On Tuesday, SPEN CEO Nicola Connelly visited Dumfries and Galloway to see how engineers were coping.She said: "There has been absolutely no let-up in our efforts since first thing on Friday to restore power as quickly and safely as possible to the thousands of customers affected by Storm Eowyn. "We’ve used every resource at our disposal and drafted in people and resources from across the country – and other companies – to tackle every single fault and we’ve made positive progress, with more than 99 per cent of our customers back on supply."We’re now in that final stretch to get all remaining customers back on.

While the numbers off have reduced, we’re still managing almost 200 individual faults in Dumfries & Galloway alone. Click here for more news and sport from Dumfries and Galloway. "That means, on average, we’re restoring a handful of customers at a time, which is one of the biggest challenges we have at this point in our response.

Every customer back on supply is a step in the right direction, but every job takes time. Our teams are also continuing to face what’s called ‘nested’ faults – several faults on a single circuit, which only come to light when we fix the initial one."I’m grateful to our customers for their patience and resilience.