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Update (as of March 13th – 8:10 p.m.) – Power was restored to all Hydro customers on the Burin Peninsula at approximately 8:10 p.m. Thank you to our customers for their patience during this extended outage.     Update (March 13th – 10:00 a.m.) – Crews have been making steady progress on repairs required to the two…

Update (Mar. 7, 5:00 pm): The Stephenville gas turbine has been returned to service. Previous Advisory (Mar. 7, 2017): Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is advising customers that the Stephenville gas turbine will be removed from service for maintenance today at 12:00 p.m. and is expected to be back online at approximately 4:00 p.m. There are no…

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is advising that the Upper Salmon Hydroelectric Generating Unit is currently offline for maintenance. Generation reserves are sufficient and there is no customer impact as a result of this work. This advisory is part of Hydro’s commitment to keep customers informed on the status of the electricity system and significant…

Update (Mar. 2, 9:00 a.m.): The combustion turbine at the Holyrood plant has been returned to service. Previous Advisory (Mar. 1, 2017): Previous Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is advising customers that the combustion turbine at the Holyrood plant has been removed from service to complete maintenance work, and is expected to return to service…

Update – Feb 27 – Unit 1 was returned to service as scheduled after maintenance work was completed. Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is advising that a generating unit (Unit 1) at the Holyrood Thermal Generating Station will be removed from service this morning (Feb 26) to complete maintenance work. The unit will be returned to…

Update (Feb. 20, 9:30 a.m.): Holyrood Unit 2 has been returned to service. Previous Advisory (Feb. 18, 2017): Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is advising that a generating unit (Unit 2) at the Holyrood Thermal Generating Station will be removed from service this evening until February 19, 2017 to complete maintenance work. Generation reserves are sufficient…

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is advising that a generating unit (Unit 2) at the Holyrood Thermal Generating Station will be removed from service this evening until February 19, 2017 to complete maintenance work. Generation reserves are sufficient and there is no customer impact as a result of this work.

Update Work was completed and the transmission line was returned to service as planned.   Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is advising of maintenance activities on one of its transmission lines servicing the Avalon Peninsula. The transmission line from Western Avalon to Holyrood has been removed from service this morning (February 17) and is expected…