Unitil Offers Explanation About April 5 Power Outage

EXETER, NH - After last night's power outage that left more than 6,000 Rockingham County residents without power, Unitil, one of the region's power companies, posted an explanation of social media about the incident.

"Our crews investigated last night's large outage in Seacoast NH and determined that the cause was a failed splice connection on one phase of a three-phase sub transmission line. The reason some folks experienced partial power is because when only one of three phases fail, streets that are fed with all three phases only received a fraction of the power they typically get."

Read the full explanation and tips on what to do if this happens again on the company's Facebook site: