Nova Scotia Power says up to 30,000 customers were left in the dark because of a surge in demand for electricity coupled with damage to equipment caused by the extreme cold and high winds
Nova Scotia’s power utility is under pressure to explain why tens of thousands of customers were without power over the weekend as an arctic air system blanketed the province and brought temperatures that felt as low as -45 C.
He said “protection devices” within the province’s network are designed to trigger outages “to protect the equipment from overload and further damage and to prevent larger outages.” The frigid temperatures reportedly caused water pipes to burst in many residences across the region, forcing people to vacate their homes.
He said that while this winter has been particularly mild, it used to be common for Nova Scotia to see stretches of -20 C temperatures in the winter. He said the utility will analyze the equipment that was overloaded and take lessons from this outage and plan improvements.
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