Canada: Wind cited in power failure affecting thousands in New Brunswick
Posted: Tue May 02, 2023 7:28 am
Canada: Wind cited in power failure affecting thousands in New Brunswick
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Thousands of N.B. Power customers were still without electricity Monday afternoon, down substantially from the 46,000 without it earlier in the day.
About 8,200 hadn't still hadn't gotten their power back by 4:30 p.m., according to N.B. Power's online outage list.
The majority of outages during the day were in the central and southwestern parts of New Brunswick, but Madawaska County in the northwest had the most by the end of the afternoon.
N.B. Power spokesperson Dominique Couture said no one from the corporation was available for an interview about why the power failures happened, but confirmed in an email that weather was the cause of some.
"The majority of customers without power in the Fredericton area are currently impacted by an outage in the transmission system," Couture said.
"Crews are currently on site to investigate and restore power safely and efficiently to customers. We are also seeing scattered outages due to high winds and significant rain in certain areas which crews are addressing at this time."
Read more here:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brun ... -1.6828022
Thousands of N.B. Power customers were still without electricity Monday afternoon, down substantially from the 46,000 without it earlier in the day.
About 8,200 hadn't still hadn't gotten their power back by 4:30 p.m., according to N.B. Power's online outage list.
The majority of outages during the day were in the central and southwestern parts of New Brunswick, but Madawaska County in the northwest had the most by the end of the afternoon.
N.B. Power spokesperson Dominique Couture said no one from the corporation was available for an interview about why the power failures happened, but confirmed in an email that weather was the cause of some.
"The majority of customers without power in the Fredericton area are currently impacted by an outage in the transmission system," Couture said.
"Crews are currently on site to investigate and restore power safely and efficiently to customers. We are also seeing scattered outages due to high winds and significant rain in certain areas which crews are addressing at this time."