QEC restores power in Iqaluit after Sunday morning outage
Billowing black smoke caused by ‘impacted generators,’ not fire, electricity company says
Smoke billows from Iqaluit’s power plant Sunday morning, when an outage affected the entire city. Smoke was caused by “impacted generators,” not by a fire, Qulliq Energy Corp. said shortly before restoring power to the city at 12:30 p.m. (Photo by Livete Ataguyuk)
Qulliq Energy Corp. restored power to Iqaluit just before 12:30 p.m. following an electricity outage caused by “problems with two of the generators” at its generating station.
A community-wide outage hit the city a little after 11:30 a.m.
By 11:45, QEC reported its crews were at the plant and investigating. It posted two more updates over the following 45 minutes until power was restored.
There was no fire at the generator, the company said in a social media post, addressing the smoke Iqalummiut saw coming from the power station on Sunday morning.
“The black smoke was caused by the impacted generators,” the company’s first update said, shortly after noon.
Businesses reported temporary closures on Sunday morning because of the power outage. But by 12:30, they were beginning to announce that business was back to normal.
That smoke billows out every time a generator is started. The smoke that spews out daily is visible in that greenish brown layer of colour on the horizon that we see on cold, windless days.
From my experience the turbo burnt out spilling oil into the engine
It’s about time we spice it up a little and get some of that into our drinking water.
Seriously … they dummies need to look at how bitcoin mining can balance out the grid ….