Generators were installed during the day, Monday, to supply Hydro-Québec customers who have been deprived of electricity for 72 hours due to an equipment breakdown in the Saint-Michel district of Montreal.
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Work is still underway on Tuesday to restore service in the affected area.
Service was first restored around 5:30 p.m. Monday evening, according to Hydro-Québec, but around 6:30 p.m. “a new outage occurred, knocking out the line.”
“Faced with the difficulty in repairing the breakdown on our network, we therefore continued the installation of generators that we had started during the day on Monday,” indicates Hydro-Québec in an email communication.
Thus, around 9 p.m. Monday evening, more than 300 affected customers, out of the approximately 1,200 households affected, had electricity again.
The State Corporation specifies that it continued to deploy mobile generators, which are the size of an 18-wheel truck, during the night from Monday to Tuesday.
“This morning, at 6 a.m., nearly 60% of the 1,200 customers affected by the outage are now powered by generators,” confirms Hydro-Québec.
Customers still without power should be connected to generators during the day Tuesday.
They will remain powered by generators until the broken underground power line is “sustainably” repaired.
“Our teams are still on the ground and continuing their work to locate the source of this outage and repair the line in order to restore service as quickly as possible,” assures the State Company.
Tuesday, 14 teams are on the ground trying to restore power.
The outage began at 2:45 a.m. early Saturday morning.
On Sunday, an emergency accommodation center was set up for affected families.
