More than 2000 customers are without power tonight in Canterbury.

Power was cut just after 7PM to residents in Darfield, Halswell, Rolleston, Southbridge, Weedons.

Orion said field staff investigating the outage, but there’s no word yet on how it was caused.

“If you have any information as to the cause of this outage, please call us on 0800 363 9898.”