At around 12.30pm, Essential Energy was made aware of a power supply issue in Bathurst, explaining that staff were investigating the problem.

"We are aware of power supply issue at Bathurst. Our crews are on the way to the suspected fault location," an Essential Energy spokesperson said.

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"Once field staff are on-site and have confirmed the fault we may revise the estimated time to safely restore the power.

"We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience while crews safely restore power."

The estimated time to restore power remains unknown at the moment, with 1662 customers currently affected by the outage.

Bathurst RSL marketing manager Janneke van der Sterren said the club has been affected by the blackout since around 12.30pm.

"At the moment we've got people waiting that the lights come back on," she said.

"We're not allowed to let people in that weren't already signed in because of the sign-in rules.

"People are just waiting and hanging around at the moment for the power to come back on."