New Brunswick

Power restored after major outages in parts of New Brunswick

More than 22,000 N.B. Power customers were without electricity early Sunday afternoon. An outage also occurred in Saint John but was quickly resolved.

More than 22,000 N.B. Power customers lost power in Fredericton area

A power outage map showing 22,675 people without power in Fredericton area.
A significant power outage occurred in the Fredericton area on Sunday afternoon. (NB Power)

N.B. Power's outage map reported a significant outage in the Fredericton area on Sunday afternoon.

More than 22,500 customers had no power, according to the utility's website.

But the map said many of those customers were back on line by 2:15 p.m. All customers had their power back by 2:40 p.m.

The cause of the outage hasn't been made public.

About 12,000 customers in Saint John were also affected by an outage around 1 p.m. Power was restored shortly after, according to Saint John Energy.