BC Hydro plans regular power outages to perform work on equipment or power lines that require them to be de-energized, according to its website. “By planning the outage and doing the necessary work, our crews can prevent a potential unplanned emergency outage in the future, where ...
Hydro said the outage was related to a contractor (non BCH) doing work that “created a fault in the circuit.” BC Hydro had to investigate to make sure everything was safe before reenergizing,” a Hydro spokesperson said. Power was fully restored at 12:03 pm. Close to 3,000 BC Hydro...
A power outage across areas in Prince Rupert has left over 8000 BC Hydro customers without electricity on May 10. The outage began at 3:50 p.m. and as of 4:20 p.m., electricity was yet to be restored to 8005 customers in Prince Rupert and Port Edward. The outage resulted from ...
Leaf it to the professionals: In Vernon, a homeowner was lucky to escape injury after contacting the power line while cleaning his gutters, causing a power outage. While outages can be unpredictable, many of these outages were preventable. BC Hydro is reminding the public to: Look up and b...
Yesterday’s winter storm knocked out power to 170,000 BC Hydro customers, and as of 6:30 a.m., around 40,000 remain without power. There are around 24,500 customers in the Lower Mainland, primarily in Maple Ridge, Surrey and Mission still without power, along wit...
7 p.m. on Friday, BC Hydro tweeted that crews were on route to an outage affecting 7,200 customers in the Cloverdale area. By about 9 p.m., BC Hydro tweeted that crews had partially restored power to the area and were working ti restore the remaining 1,000 customers without power. ...
between the customer and BC Hydro •Customer cost/consumption feedback provided through bills only •Customer cost/consumption feedback provided near real-time and via multiple choices •No outage detection (customer must call in)•Automated outage detection and notification •Limited ability to...
The BC Hydro map site specifically provides information about the number of customers affected, the time the power turned off, the estimated time the power will return, when the page was last updated and in a unique spin what caused the outage! Now, this is simply awesome to put that infor...
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“While most British Columbians think fall and winter storms are getting worse, some regions are more prepared than others for storm-related power outages,” said Kyle Donaldson, BC Hydro spokesperson, in a media release. “In fact, regions that experience more frequent storm ...