More On Yesterday’s Power Outage | Wednesday, March 23, 2011

We now have more information about the cause of yesterday's power outage in the Central and Southern Yukon. The black-out was a result of a problem with a piece of our equipment at the Faro mine. The technical term for the equipment is a low side bus duct, which essentially is a set of cables that connect our transformer to the Faro mine. The mine is currently being fed through an alternate transformer until we can repair or replace the damaged bus duct.

The Faro mine noticed smoke and sparks coming from the bus duct, and notified us. We want to thank the mine for reporting the problem to us, because it helped us locate the source of the problem.