Are you building or mining the tiles through a mod (script-based placement)?
I only accounted for Players (on_player_built_tile, on_player_mined_tile) and Robots (on_robot_built_tile, on_robot_mined_tile) as I had no proper references for script-based placement.
If you place down Powered Tiles manually on those persisting power zones, and then remove them manually after, do they still persist?