According to the state-owned company, a little more than 70,000 addresses were affected by this outage starting at 6:25 a.m. The number of affected customers is gradually being reduced. At 7 a.m., there were still 55,882 homes without electricity.
“We have an equipment breakdown at the Charland substation north of the island of Montreal,” wrote Hydro-Québec spokesperson Lynn St-Laurent. “We are doing remote maneuvers at the moment to try to repower as many customers as possible.”
A team should be deployed on the ground to try to restore the situation. We do not yet know the time when power will be restored, the spokesperson warned Noovo Info.
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Remember that an arctic air mass is currently hitting the province. These drops in temperature may make you want to turn up the heating a few degrees at home. This is why Hydro-Québec was preparing for a peak in consumption which could reach 42,000 megawatts by Wednesday.
-“Tuesday morning, we should have consumption around 41,000 megawatts on the network and Wednesday, we should be a little above 42,000 megawatts,” explained Cendrix Bouchard, spokesperson for Hydro-Québec to Noovo Info .
In order to reduce individual consumption, Cendrix Bouchard recommends lowering the heating by a few degrees during peak periods, postponing the use of hot water and larger household appliances such as the washer and dryer.
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