About 21,000 electricity connections in and around Dongen, Rijen and municipalities north of Tilburg were affected by a power outage. Places reported without power included Dongen, Rijen, 's Gravenmoer, Oosteind, Molenschot and parts of Waspik and Tilburg; Sprang-Capelle was also listed among the affected areas.

One report attributed the outage to a fault at the high-voltage station in Oosteind, while another said no cause had been given. Enexis initially expected the disruption to last until 11:30.