A partial power outage began around midnight early this morning affecting households in the community of Hay River.
While an update has yet to be issued publicly, company leadership says the issue has been resolved. It is unclear how many households were impacted as community leadership was not immediately able to make a formal comment on the current situation.
A message on NTPC’s social media reads that crews were on site working on the issue early this morning.
“We are currently onsite investigating the partial town outage in Hay River that started at 12:22 this morning.”
According to the post, one of the feeders had “tripped off.”
It is unclear at this time what precipitated the issue.
While an update has yet to be issued on social media, Doug Prendergast of NTPC reported that power was restored shortly after 1 a.m. with the outage affecting nearly 650 customers for nearly one hour.
“There was a partial outage in Hay River early this morning. It began at 12:22 am due to overheating of one of the generators at the local plant. Power was restored to all customers by 1:02 am, meaning that 646 customers were without power for approximately 40 minutes,” said Prendergast in an email.
The region is currently experiencing extreme cold conditions since last night, dipping into the minus 40 zones
North Now has reached out to town leadership and to NWT’s Power Corporation and will share more information when it becomes available
