Advisories

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is advising residents, cabin owners and travellers that controlled water release is occurring and forecast rainfall and additional snow melt may result in releases in the following areas: In the Granite Canal area accessed from Central Newfoundland controlled releases are being made at the Granite Canal Bypass Structure, the Granite…

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is reminding people to be safe around dams, dykes and hydroelectric facilities. Fluctuating temperatures can cause changes in water levels as well as instability and unsafe conditions for activities such as snowmobiling and ATV’ing. Please use extra caution in Hydro’s watersheds – particulary the Bay d’Espoir area and the Exploits…

Please be advised that there will be a planned outage for customers in Joe Batt’s Arm and Tilting today, February 7 from 1:00-2:00PM. The outage is required to allow crews to tie in a new pole.  The existing pole was broken in yesterday’s storm. Thank you for your continued patience.  This should be the remaining…

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is advising that the Power Warning has been lifted and there are no alerts in place for this morning. Units 1 and 2 at Holyrood are back online and we have sufficient power to meet customers needs.  We thank our customers for their assistance and will continue to update them on the…

Hydro is advising that Unit 2 at the Holyrood Thermal Generating Station has been returned to service.  Unit 1 had to be taken offline to further investigate the cause of this morning’s trip and remains unavailable. Unit 2 is being brought online slowly and the Power Warning will remain in effect during the evening peak   – we continue to ask customers to conserve electricity during this…

Update: 6:30AM Hydro is advising that Unit 1 at the Holyrood Thermal Generating Plant has been returned to service.  The unit is being loaded slowly and the Power Warning will remain in effect during the morning peak – we continue to ask customers to conserve electricity. Please conserve by: – turning back heat a few degrees – limit…

Unit 2 at the Holyrood Thermal Generating Plant remains out of service and now has an estimated return date of Feb 5. The unit is not currently required to support customer load, therefore crews are taking this time to complete additional work. Hydro has sufficient reserves to reliably serve customers. Previous Advisory: Jan 21, 2015…

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is advising that Unit 2 at the Holyrood Thermal Generating Station has been taken offline for additional inspection and repairs. Reserves are forecasted to be adequate over the coming days. All other generating units on the Avalon Peninsula, including the two other thermal generating units at the Holyrood plant, as…

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is advising customers in Happy Valley Goose Bay and the communities of North West River, Sheshatshui, and Mud Lake that repairs will be going ahead today on the transmission line from Churchill Falls to Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Power will be impacted in these areas during the repair work which will start at about…