What’s with the Bumps?

Today's question: When is Yukon Energy going to stop with the constant bumps in service?

Thanks for the question. To answer, I need to explain the division of duties of the two utilities that operate in Yukon. Yukon Energy (that's us) generates most of the power and sells most of it to Yukon Electrical Company Limited. Yukon Electrical Company Limited then distributes it to most residential, small business and government customers in the territory. That includes people in Marsh Lake.

Looking back over our records for 2010, we have been responsible for two outages that would have affected Marsh Lake residents ... one on June 7th and one on August 18th. Any other outages experienced in that area would have been related to the distribution side of things. This in no way gives Yukon Energy license to shirk our own responsibility for providing the most reliable service possible. While our outage statistics have improved over the last couple of years, we know we must keep investing significant time and money into our aging system so that the number of power disruptions continues to decrease.