Power cuts today: check your postcode
How many power cuts are active right now and roughly how many homes are off supply, from the electricity networks' own live data.
Last checked 5 November 2026, 18:20 · network operators' live feeds
Coverage: 6 of 6 GB distribution networks. Britain's power-cut data is split across regional network operators with no single national feed — we aggregate the ones that publish live data and add more as their feeds are integrated.
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Live cuts, planned work and restoration times for 99 towns and cities on the networks that publish live data. The number is unplanned cuts at our last update.
- Barnsley
- Basildon
- Basingstoke
- Bath
- Bedford
- Birmingham
- Bournemouth3
- Bracknell
- Bradford
- Brighton and Hove1
- Bristol
- Buckinghamshire2
- Burton upon Trent
- Cambridge
- Cardiff1
- Chelmsford
- Cheltenham
- Chesterfield
- Colchester1
- Cornwall
- County Durham
- Coventry1
- Crawley
- Darlington
- Derby
- Doncaster
- Dorset3
- Dudley
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Eastbourne
- Exeter
- Gateshead2
- Gloucester
- Grimsby1
- Guildford
- Halifax
- Harlow
- Hartlepool
- Hastings
- Hemel Hempstead
- Herefordshire
- Huddersfield1
- Hull
- Ipswich
- Isle of Wight
- Leeds1
- Leicester
- Lincoln
- London9
- Luton
- Maidstone1
- Mansfield
- Medway2
- Middlesbrough
- Milton Keynes
- Newcastle upon Tyne1
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Newport
- North Yorkshire1
- Northampton1
- Northumberland
- Norwich
- Nottingham
- Nuneaton1
- Oxford
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Reading
- Redditch
- Rotherham
- Scunthorpe
- Sheffield1
- Shropshire1
- Slough
- Solihull
- Somerset3
- South Shields
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea1
- St Albans
- Stevenage
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Sunderland1
- Swansea
- Swindon2
- Telford
- Wakefield1
- Walsall
- Watford
- West Bromwich
- Weston-super-Mare
- Wiltshire1
- Woking
- Wolverhampton
- Worcester
- Worthing
- York
Town pages for Manchester, Liverpool and the rest of the North West, Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales and central and southern Scotland aren't built yet. Their cuts are in the national figures above, and Home Alerts covers them. Call 105 or use your network's own map.
In a power cut, call 105
Dial 105 free from any phone in England, Scotland and Wales to reach your local electricity network operator — whoever you pay your bill to. It's the number to report a cut or get an update. Most cuts are restored within hours; a torch, a power bank and warm layers cover the realistic case.
| Thu 5 Nov | 7,551 | |
| Wed 4 Nov | 3,282 | |
| Tue 3 Nov | 3,592 | |
| Mon 2 Nov | 3,295 | |
| Sun 1 Nov | 2,349 | |
| Sat 31 Oct | 1,614 | |
| Fri 30 Oct | 3,695 |
See all 60 days
| Thu 29 Oct | 3,057 | |
| Wed 28 Oct | 2,704 | |
| Tue 27 Oct | 9,139 | |
| Mon 26 Oct | 16,414 | |
| Sun 25 Oct | 64,517 | |
| Sat 24 Oct | 46,421 | |
| Fri 23 Oct | 40,325 | |
| Thu 22 Oct | 4,489 | |
| Wed 21 Oct | 5,949 | |
| Tue 20 Oct | 5,045 | |
| Mon 19 Oct | 5,183 | |
| Sun 18 Oct | 4,343 | |
| Sat 17 Oct | 1,895 | |
| Fri 16 Oct | 1,878 | |
| Thu 15 Oct | 4,131 | |
| Wed 14 Oct | 2,557 | |
| Tue 13 Oct | 2,600 | |
| Mon 12 Oct | 3,991 | |
| Sun 11 Oct | 1,772 | |
| Sat 10 Oct | 2,080 | |
| Fri 9 Oct | 2,631 | |
| Thu 8 Oct | 6,749 | |
| Wed 7 Oct | 3,641 | |
| Tue 6 Oct | 2,671 | |
| Mon 5 Oct | 3,389 | |
| Sun 4 Oct | 1,855 | |
| Sat 3 Oct | 146 | |
| Fri 2 Oct | 564 | |
| Thu 1 Oct | 4,113 | |
| Wed 30 Sept | 3,495 | |
| Tue 29 Sept | 17,213 | |
| Mon 28 Sept | 2,557 | |
| Sun 27 Sept | 1,687 | |
| Sat 26 Sept | 2,262 | |
| Fri 25 Sept | 1,771 | |
| Thu 24 Sept | 2,926 | |
| Wed 23 Sept | 2,552 | |
| Tue 22 Sept | 5,434 | |
| Mon 21 Sept | 3,579 | |
| Sun 20 Sept | 996 | |
| Sat 19 Sept | 2,360 | |
| Fri 18 Sept | 2,337 | |
| Thu 17 Sept | 3,029 | |
| Wed 16 Sept | 2,620 | |
| Tue 15 Sept | 3,383 | |
| Mon 14 Sept | 3,421 | |
| Sun 13 Sept | 1,807 | |
| Sat 12 Sept | 1,799 | |
| Fri 11 Sept | 2,652 | |
| Thu 10 Sept | 827 | |
| Wed 9 Sept | 4,849 | |
| Tue 8 Sept | 3,193 | |
| Mon 7 Sept | 4,758 |
Source: National Grid, Northern Powergrid, UK Power Networks, SSEN, SP Energy Networks & Electricity North West (live network feeds). Data © the respective network operators. For your specific address always use your network operator's live map or call 105.
