EDMONTON – Seven separate power outages hit Edmonton Tuesday afternoon, according to EPCOR.
The company named the following affected areas on Twitter: 75 to 96 St. from 118 to 127 Ave., along with 85 to 142 St. from 36 to 81 Ave.
It later added the following addresses: 156 to 163 St. from 112 to 125 Ave., and 50 to 75 St. from 68 to 82 Ave.
Traffic was affected across the city due to the power outage.
EPCOR said it is “working as quickly and safely as possible to restore power,” calling in additional resources to help.
It appears that by 6:10, some areas were seeing power restored.
EPCOR spokesperson Tim le Riche confirmed that two of the outages have been resolved.
Around 9:45, came this update:
According to le Riche, Tuesday’s outages were “weather related.”
“The number one cause of power outages in Edmonton is weather. It happens all year long,” le Riche explained.
“You get days like today where we’ve got a lot of moisture; and, in some cases, if there’s enough moisture it’ll run over the ceramic insulators on the lines, and then they create a circuit and a fault. And we’ve experienced that a couple times tonight.”
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