SUPPLY should be restored to all properties affected by a fault affecting the Bendigo network, Powercor says.

Powercor and Ausnet are yet to confirm what caused the outages.

At its height, outages affected more than 25,000 customers.

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In Goornong, 51 customers remain without power because of a planned outage.

Another 113 are listed as being without power around Spring Gully on the Powercor website. It is linked to a fault in Retreat Road.

Two are without power in West Bendigo because of a different fault.

10.30am

POWERCOR has restored electricity to about 10,000 customers by rerouting power from around other parts of the network.

About 14,000 customers remain off of supply.

Powercor says restoration should take place over the rest of the morning.

10.20am

NETWORK owner AusNet Services has confirmed it is investigating the widespread outages.

Powercor is still reporting tens of thousands of houses without power, but some residents are reporting their power has returned, sometimes after turning itself off and on several times.

10.10am

POWERCOR says outages affecting more than 25,000 customers was caused by a fault on the transmission network.

That network is owned and operated by AusNet Services.

Powercor said it was now working with AusNet to restore power as safely and quickly as possible.

AustNet is being contacted for comment.

9.45am

SOME of the homes that lost power this morning are back on the grid.

Elsewhere, several more areas outside Bendigo appear to have been added to Powercor's lost of properties experiencing issues.

However, Powercor says 51 properties in Goorning are being impacted by a planned outage.

It is not clear whether the outage is connected with the wider power loss, which Powercor continues to say is under investigation.

9.32am

Here's the number of Powercor customers affected by the outage around Bendigo:

Here's how many are affected outside of Bendigo:

Powercor is also reporting outages around Echuca, Shepparton and Creswick.

It remains unclear what has caused them all, or whether they are related.

Earlier

THOUSANDS of homes have lost power across Bendigo this morning.

Powercor has been contacted and is investigating the huge power outage, which has affected 10s of suburbs in the city limits.

Properties as far south as Redesdale have also been affected.

Further east, 16 Powercor customers have lost their power. The issue is also affecting residents of Bridgewater.

Many of the homes appear to have lost power just after 9am.

This story is being updated as more information comes to hand.

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