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Four weeks earlier, a legal storm system left nearly 180,000 homes and businesses in the Ottawa area without electricity, some of them for a week.
Hydro Ottawa said the disruptions that occurred in the early hours of Saturday afternoon were caused by a “loss of supply” of Hydro One, the public company that transmits and distributes electricity in Ontario. Photo by Errol McGihon / Postmedia
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Thousands of people in Nepean lost their electricity on Saturday, many of them for the second time in the last month.
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Hydro Ottawa said the disruptions that occurred in the early afternoon were caused by a “loss of supply” of Hydro One, the public company that transmits and distributes electricity in Ontario.
At its peak, the outage affected about 27,000 customers in the city’s Knoxdale-Merivale, College, Kitchissippi and Bay neighborhoods.
Hydro Ottawa said it diverted energy to get customers back online while waiting for Hydro One to restore its full supply.
Most of the affected Hydro Ottawa customers had their electricity restored within a few hours.
Another outage that affected about 200 customers in the West Carleton-March neighborhood at the western end of the city was reported around 4:30 p.m., but again, this service was restored in the mid-afternoon, according to the Hydro Ottawa online disruption map.
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Hydro One said its teams were working on Saturday to restore power after its transmission lines were damaged due to strong winds moving through the province.
The outage came four weeks after a devastating thunderstorm struck the province on May 21, leaving more than 760,000 Ontario customers without electricity.
Hydro One said the storm did “unprecedented damage” to its power grid and left many trees weak and in danger of ruining power lines in another storm.
In the Ottawa area, the May 21 storm system killed five people and left nearly 180,000 homes and businesses without electricity, some for a week.
Hydro Ottawa CEO Bryce Conrad has said the storm adversely affected all parts of the company’s 1,100-square-mile coverage area and was many times more damaging than the 1998 ice storm. tornadoes of 2018.