Last Night’s Outage | Tuesday, September 15, 2009

There was a brief power outage last night that affected Riverdale, Grainger, most of Copper Ridge, and areas south of Whitehorse including Tagish, Marsh Lake and Carcross. Power went out at 11:13 p.m. and was restored to everyone within 25 minutes. Some areas had their electricity back on within 13 minutes.

The outage occurred as we were making changes to our system to accommodate the new third hydro turbine that will be installed at our Aishihik plant within the next year. We lost stability on the system and two of our Whithorse  hydro units went down. The problem has been resolved and all units are now functioning properly. We apologize to all those who were affected by the outage.

 

» Topics: Reliability

3 Comments

Flashing 12:00  -  September 17 at 5:06 pm

That is a wonderful response.  So YEC is doing Yukoners a favour by issuing ‘credits’ to its customers every time a bird cooks on a wire, turbine 4 coughs or you ‘lose stability’

I guess the resulting fried electronics are ‘economic stimulating bonuses’ as we have to go out and buy new gear long before we need?

Thanks for thinking of us AND the economy!

Yukon Energy  -  September 17 at 8:01 am

In effect you are getting a credit, in that you cannot be charged for electricity you did not use, and of course during an outage you can’t use any power from the grid.

Flashing 12:00  -  September 16 at 9:53 pm

So I assume you’ll be crediting our accounts then?

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