Power outage planned for Iqaluit Tuesday
Qulliq Energy Corp. making electrical upgrades for new generator
Qulliq Energy Corp., Nunavut’s electricity supplier, is advising people of a community-wide power outage in Iqaluit starting early Tuesday. It’s needed so the company can do work related to a new generator. (File photo)
People in Iqaluit should expect an overnight power outage starting early Tuesday.
The community-wide outage is expected to last from 12:01 a.m. until approximately 3:30 a.m. that morning, Qulliq Energy Corp. said Friday in a news release.
The outage is required to allow crews to make electrical upgrades to support a new generator, the release said.
The new generator is part of a $10-million upgrade to the Iqaluit power plant that was announced in November. The new 3,500-kilowatt generator replaces a 1992 generator to ensure “greater reliability,” John Main, Nunavut’s minister responsible for Qulliq Energy Corp., said at the time.
Iqaluit has seen four unannounced partial community power outages in the past month, according to the QEC Facebook page.
3.5 hours is still quite a while for us to go without our furnaces turning on.
Wear a sweater.
Be a problem solver.
We go out for at least 8 hours in the dead of winter at -30 to hunt and fish why complain for three hours
Homeowners pay alot for power but no jobs. We pay alot to house fuel, power, yet no jobs.
What?
I slept right through it.
3 yrs ago , a drunk took out a power line pole in town , we were out of heat for 6 hrs
while hydro installed a new pole , it was march -30 blowing snow.
good point. while keyboard warriors complain about not having power the real warriors are out in the worst kinds of weather restoring the power. Way to go QEC