Hydro Ottawa said the shutdown early Saturday afternoon was caused by a “loss of supply” from Hydro One, the Ontario-based utility that transmits and distributes electricity. Photo by Errol McGihon / Postmedia
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Thousands of people in Nepean lost their electricity on Saturday, many for the second time last month.
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Hydro Ottawa said the downturn early in the afternoon was caused by a “loss of supply” from Hydro One, the utility that transmits and distributes electricity in Ontario. At its peak, the outage affected approximately 27,000 customers at the Knoxdale-Merivale, College, Kitchissippi and Bay booths in the city. Hydro Ottawa said it changed the power supply routing to bring customers back online, waiting to restore full supply of Hydro One. Most of the customers affected by Hydro Ottawa regained their power within a few hours. Another outage that affected about 200 customers in the West Carleton-March area at the western end of the city was reported at about 4:30 p.m., but again, that service resumed by mid-afternoon, according to the online map. Holiday Resorts in Hydro Ottawa.
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Hydro One said its crews were working on Saturday to restore power after its transmission lines were damaged as strong winds blew across the countryside. The outage came four weeks after a devastating derecho storm across the province on May 21, leaving more than 760,000 Ontario customers without power. Hydro One said the storm caused “unprecedented damage” to its power grid and left many trees weakened and at risk of throwing power lines into another storm. In the Ottawa area, the May 21st storm killed five people and left nearly 180,000 homes and businesses without power, some for a week. Hydro Ottawa CEO Bryce Conrad said the storm negatively affected every part of the company’s 1,100-square-kilometer area and was many times more devastating than the 1998 ice storm or 2018 tornadoes.
