Gisborne power outage: Kaiti and Wainui restoration on 6 November
Firstlight Network reports power restored after an unplanned interruption in Wainui, Riverside Road, Fox Street and Kaiti on 6 November 2026. The operator lists a fault on its 50kV network, with a start at 01:53 and an end at 03:00 local time. The original number of customers affected is unknown.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: restored, according to the source · Firstlight reports power restored for incident 1518 in the listed areas; address-level supply has not been independently checked.
Source moment: Nov 6, 2026, 03:52 AM UTC (04:52 PM local time)
In 20 seconds
Firstlight lists Wainui, Riverside Road, Fox Street and all of Kaiti as the affected footprint.
The operator marks incident 1518 as restored and attributes the interruption to a 50kV network fault.
Zero in the restored row’s customer column does not establish how many customers originally lost supply.
The areas named by Firstlight
The outage table identifies incident 1518 as an unplanned interruption and names Wainui, Riverside Road, Fox Street and all of Kaiti. This is a record of the listed areas, rather than evidence that the whole of Gisborne lost power. The available source does not provide a verified total of affected homes, businesses or people.
Firstlight gives the reason as a fault on its 50kV network. It does not explain the precise equipment failure or provide a detailed technical root cause. The operator’s restored notice is the basis for this report; individual properties have not been independently checked.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Listed areas
- Wainui, Riverside Road, Fox Street and all of Kaiti
- Listed interval
- 6 November 2026, 01:53–03:00; interpreted as New Zealand daylight time
- Operator status
- Power restored; fault on the 50kV network
- Original affected customers
- Unknown; zero in the restored row is not the original total
Incident times and the table update
The row lists 01:53 to 03:00 on 6 November and carries the status Power Restored. The scanner interprets these clocks as New Zealand daylight time from the location and date. The source does not print a separate time-zone label, so that interpretation remains explicit.
The table’s last-update label reads 16:52 on 6 November. That page update is separate from the incident’s start and end, and does not identify when the individual row was first published. Its customer column shows zero beside this restored incident. That figure cannot be used as the original outage count or converted into a number of people affected.
Planning for a future interruption
The backup essentials guide, runtime calculator and internet backup guide provide general planning context for essential devices and battery capacity. They do not provide live supply information for individual addresses. This article records a dated operator incident and its reported restoration, with the original customer total and detailed fault mechanism still unknown.