CALGARY – Thousands of people were left without power for over an hour after a widespread New Year’s Day outage in the city’s southeast.
Enmax took to twitter just after 12 p.m. on Wednesday to say they were aware of the issue, and that crews are working to fix the problem.
They it was mostly industrial areas which were impacted by the outage, but it also included parts of Riverbend, Maple Ridge, Acadia and Willow Park.
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A total of 8,856 customer’s were impacted. Approximately half were back on by 1:30 p.m. and the remainder were restored to power by 2:20 p.m.
Enmax says the cause of the outage was predominantly weather related (a large quantity of heavy snow impacted operations at Substation #9).
Calgary Transit says the power outage also impacted their service. Crowfoot/Somerset trains were delayed due to the loss of power.
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