Advisories

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is advising residents, cabin owners and travellers that recent rain and snow melt have resulted in high water levels in some reservoirs. There is a potential for release of water in the following areas: Star Lake in Central Newfoundland. The Company may begin to release water at Star Lake Spillway into…

In an effort to assist with increasing load on the system, Hydro will begin rotating customers for outages lasting approximately 60 minutes. Outages will occur in the following order: 1. Plum Point and Bear Cove 2. Wiltondale and Rocky Harbour 3. St. Alban’s 4. Roddickton and South Brook areas All available resources are working towards…

At 9:00 am NST there was a fire on a transformer at Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro’s (Hydro) Sunnyside Terminal Station. The fire resulted in the loss of generation to customers across the island electricity system. Crews were promptly onsite at Sunnyside and contained the fire and damaged transformer. All available resources are working towards restoration…

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is continuing to experience very high electricity loads on the Island Interconnected System. This, in combination with our reduced generation availability from ongoing repairs, means rotating outages will continue tonight and tomorrow. “We experienced a new record load last evening – reaching approximately 1550 megawatts (MW), which is about 400MW…

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) reports the Island Interconnected System has been experiencing electricity loads this evening that are significantly higher than anticipated. As a result, there have been rotating outages for pockets of customers across the island and those outages are expected to continue into this evening at least to midnight. The outages also…

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro Public Safety Advisory December 31, 2013 – Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is issuing a public advisory to residents, cabin owners and travelers in the area of Goose Pond, located near Howley inWestern Newfoundland. Through the normal operation of the Hinds Lake Generating Facility, there may be an increase in water flow…

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro Public Safety Advisory December 23, 2013 – Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is advising residents, cabin owners and travellers that reservoir levels and channel flows are still high at its facilities but the potential for releases of water have ended for the time being. People are reminded that water levels and flows…

December 15, 2013 – Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is advising residents, cabin owners and travellers that reservoir levels and channel flows are still high at its facilities. The Company has stopped l releasing water at Star Lake Spillway into Star Brook in Central Newfoundland. All other releases have also ceased, however there is a potential…

December 11, 2013 – Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is advising residents, cabin owners and travellers that reservoir levels and channel flows are still high at its facilities. The Company is still releasing water at Star Lake Spillway into Star Brook in Central Newfoundland. All other releases have ceased, however there is apotential that releases will…

December 9, 2013 – Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is advising residents, cabin owners and travellers that as a result of the recent high rainfall, reservoir levels and channel flows are very high and releases of water are required at many of its facilities. The Company is releasing water at the following locations: Star Lake area…