Nepean customers are affected by more power outages

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Four weeks earlier, a roaring storm left nearly 180,000 homes and businesses in the Ottawa region without electricity, some for a full week.

Hydro Ottawa said the interruptions, which occurred early Saturday afternoon, were caused by a “loss of supply” by Hydro One, the utility company that transmits and distributes electricity in Ontario. Photo by Errol McGuigan / Postmedia

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Thousands of people in Nepean lost their electricity on Saturday, many for the second time in the last month.

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Hydro Ottawa said the interruptions in the early afternoon were caused by a “loss of supply” by Hydro One, the company that transmits and distributes electricity in Ontario.

In the midst of the outage affected about 27,000 customers in the cities of Knoxdale-Maryvale, College, Kichisipi and Bay.

Hydro Ottawa said it was redirecting power to bring customers back online while waiting for Hydro One to restore full power.

Most of the affected Hydro Ottawa customers recovered within a few hours.

Another interruption, affecting about 200 customers in the West Carleton-March area at the western end of the city, was reported around 4:30 p.m., but again this service was restored by mid-evening, according to Hydro Ottawa’s online interruption map.

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Hydro One said its crews were working on Saturday to restore power after transmission lines were damaged as strong winds blew across the countryside.

The outage came four weeks after a devastating thunderstorm erupted in the province on May 21, leaving more than 760,000 customers in Ontario without electricity.

Hydro One said the storm caused “unprecedented damage” to the power grid and left many trees weakened and at risk of falling power lines in another storm.

In the Ottawa region, a storm on May 21 killed five people and left nearly 180,000 homes and businesses without electricity, some for a week.

Hydro Ottawa CEO Bryce Conrad said the storm adversely affected every part of the company’s 1,100-square-kilometer coverage area and was many times more harmful than the 1998 ice storm or 2018 tornado.