Hundreds of people in Errol suffered power cuts on Saturday morning.
Scottish & Southern Electricity Network (SSEN) reported the outage in the area at around 11.30am on Saturday.
According to the network’s power track website, around 845 customers had been affected by the power cut.
A spokesperson for SSE said: “The engineers are due to arrive at 12:15pm.
“We have had customers call in to say that a pole box has exploded. Automatically they emit themselves straight away so there’ll be no further damage.
“The engineers will replace the pole box. If the pole is damaged we might have to replace that but nine times out of 10 we don’t have to do that.
“As expected, power should be restored by 2:30pm.
“There may be a slight delay but by that point the majority of customers will be back on and there’ll be a small proportion of customers still off.”
Residents started to see power return just after 1pm on Saturday afternoon.
SSEN resolved the issue by 8pm.
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