Power largely restored after outage during deep freeze in Montreal
About 100,000 Hydro-Québec clients, including in Montréal-Nord, impacted Tuesday
After an early morning outage cut power to nearly 100,000 Montreal addresses early Tuesday morning, Hydro-Québec says it has brought power back to the affected areas.
"The situation is largely back to normal this morning," said Lynn St-Laurent, a spokesperson for the Crown corporation. "Customers who were without power yesterday morning have had their power restored."
At 5 a.m. on Wednesday, Hydro-Québec was reporting seven outages in Montreal at 3,731 locations, but none were hit by Tuesday morning's major outage.
It began at 6:25 a.m. on one of the coldest days of the winter. St-Laurent said it was due to equipment failure at a substation.
The outage primarily impacted those in the boroughs of Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Montréal-Nord and Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension.
By noon, more than 15,000 clients were still without power, including some schools. The number of customers affected fluctuated in the afternoon, dropping as low as 3,800 and then back up to 6,800 at around 6:45 p.m.
"Obviously we want to get the power back as quickly as possible. We know that it's very cold and that's where our focus is right now," St-Laurent told CBC News on Tuesday.
With files from Radio-Canada