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Quebec ice storm: Extensive repairs needed to fix single remaining power outage

WATCH: Hydro-Québec is still scrambling to restore power to thousand of customers after an ice storm last week caused massive power outages. As Global’s Elizabeth Zogalis reports, some experts are raising questions about the reliability of power grids. – Apr 10, 2023

Hydro-Quebec has announced that all but one of the power outages caused by last week’s ice storm have been repaired.

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The electric utility says there is still one outage affecting about four customers that requires extensive repairs.

The utility reported this morning that a few hundred of its customers were without power, but the outages were not related to the April 5 ice storm.

On Wednesday, there were still 4,500 customers without power, including more than 3,100 in Montreal.

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At the height of the crisis, more than 1.1 million Hydro-Quebec customers were in the dark.

At the beginning of the week, some 1,500 Hydro-Quebec workers were on the job making repairs, with 40 per cent of them in Montreal.

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