We have written on this blog before about the work Yukon Energy is doing to reduce both the frequency and the geographical size of power outages in Yukon. This year we implemented an aggressive maintenance schedule to upgrade our equipment and improve reliability of power. One project we recently completed involved making improvements to the governors for two of our Whitehorse hydro generators. Yesterday, we saw evidence that the work has paid off.
Because of a problem with Yukon Electrical Company Limited, power went out to part of Whitehorse yesterday afternoon. In the past, such an outage could have caused Yukon Energy's hydro units to shut down, resulting in a wide-spread outage throughout the Southern Yukon. With the new equipment, however, this didn't happen. The equipment did its job and the outage was limited to a part of Whitehorse.
While this may be no consolation to those Whitehorse residents who lost power yesterday, we see this as very good news, as it means we have identified and fixed a problem that has caused numerous grid-wide power outages in the past.
Comments
Be the first to comment
Commenting is not available in this channel entry.