As we write this, power is being restored to customers in the Southern and parts of the Central Yukon. The power went out just before 4 o’clock this afternoon. Crew members were doing some work on the transformer at our Aishihik facility, and in the process of doing that they encountered a problem which led to the outage.
There is no question that there have been far too many power outages over the last few months and you are right to demand an answer as to why. It’s a topic that deserves a full and thoughtful response, and we will provide an answer for you very soon via this blog. Today though, our focus must be to restore everyone’s power as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and our apologies for the inconvenience this outage has caused you.
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