Thousands of people across Romsey, Andover and the Villages are experiencing numerous power cuts whilst a fault in Newbury is being fixed by Southern Electric.
The power outages have continued throughout the day much to the anger of residents.
Southern Electric said “A fault in Newbury which is affecting around 1000 customers is having a knock-on effect to thousands more, This is due to engineers having to switch the direction of the supply causing short power cuts which may last until 3pm.”