TORONTO – Utility companies are looking into reports of flickering lights in homes across the Toronto area and other parts of the province Monday night.
Residents from the Toronto region and as far as Ottawa took to social media to report the flicker, with some expressing concerns that a blackout was on the way.
PowerStream, a municipally-owned utility serving some 370,000 north of Toronto and in central Ontario, says flickering lights were experienced across its service area but no major outages were reported.
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It also says its control centre found a “voltage disturbance” on the Hydro One system just before 9:30 p.m. Monday.
Hydro One says it is investigating the voltage drop, which did not cause any outages.
There were outages reported Monday in the Toronto area and Barrie but these were not linked to the flicker and power had largely been restored by morning.
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