Power has now been restored to almost all Yukon communities that were affected by this afternoon's outage. The power went out to most areas of the Southern and Central Yukon at 2:23 this afternoon. Electricity was restored to almost everyone by 3:45 p.m., with some areas receiving power sooner than that. A few customers between Faro and Carmacks remained without power until about 9:30 tonight.
Whenever there is an outage, our first priority is to restore power, and only once that has been accomplished do we begin to investigate the cause. We have dispatched crews to do that investigative work and we hope to know the reason for the outage by tomorrow.
Please accept our apologies for any difficulties this outage may have caused you.
Any questions or comments can be submitted to communications@yec.yk.ca.
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