Advisories

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is advising customers that the Power Watch issued this morning will remain in effect for the Avalon Peninsula ONLY. This is a result of one unit of three at the Holyrood Plant remaining offline for necessary repairs. No immediate action is required for customers, however due to colder temperatures and…

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is advising customers that one of three generating units at the Holyrood plant is being taken offline for a necessary repair. All other available generating units will be online to meet customer demand and there are no outages expected at this time. However, Hydro is forecasting high customer demand during peak…

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is issuing a public advisory to residents, cabin owners and travelers in the area of Goose Pond, located near Howley in Western Newfoundland. Through the normal operation of the Hinds Lake Generating Facility, there may be an increase in water flow downstream of the Goose Pond Dam until the end of…

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is advising residents, cabin owners and travellers that the potential for water releases in the Star Lake area of Central Newfoundland and the Jackson’s Arm and White Bay area on Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula is ended for now. People are advised to always use these areas with great caution as water…

UPDATE – October 26, 2015 Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is advising residents, cabin owners and travellers that the potential for water release in the Star Lake area of Central Newfoundland is over for now. People are advised to always these areas with great caution as water levels and flows are unpredictable.  

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) will be performing equipment maintenance on a transmission line which runs between Churchill Falls and Happy Valley Goose Bay on Sunday, October 25th between 2:00AM and 10:00AM. There may be an opportunity to start the outage earlier, at midnight, if the electrical load will permit. This will be evaluated every…

UPDATE 11:00AM – Update: 11:00AM – Some additional customers will be impacted by an outage due to this work. For full list see here: https://my.nlhydro.com/portal/PreLogOutages.aspx UPDATE 9:30AM – Equipment outage delayed by approximately three hours due to a temporary issue with the back-up gas turbine.  Work beginning at 9:00AM. Due to heavy load on the…

UPDATE November 12, 2015 – Work on the transmission line is complete and the line has been returned to service. ————————————————————————————— October 6, 2015 – Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is advising of planned maintenance activities on one of its transmission lines servicing the Avalon Peninsula. Work began on October 5 and will continue until…

UPDATE October 9, 2015  –  Repairs on the Hardwoods Gas Turbine, located in Paradise,  were completed earlier than anticipated and the unit is available for service. Previous Release October 6, 2015 – Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is advising customers that the Hardwoods Gas Turbine located in Paradise, is being taken offline to allow for repairs…

UPDATE October 13, 2015 – Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is advising residents, cabin owners and travellers that the potential for water releases at its systems is ended for now. People are advised to continue to use reservoir areas with great caution as water levels and flows are unpredictable Previous Release October 2, 2015. Newfoundland and Labrador…