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Hydro launches community safety event

April 3, 2013 – Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) today filed a capital budget application with the Newfoundland and Labrador Board of Commissioners of Public Utilities (Board) for restoration of Unit One at the Holyrood Generating Station. The application also includes several investigation reports. Unit One at the Holyrood plant shut down due to an…

February 18, 2013, 1:00 p.m. – Newfoundland & Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is reporting that crews are continuing to restore power to some customers on the Great Northern Peninsula. Power has been restored to the majority of customers. Crews are working to repair some broken poles and downed power lines due to the extreme high winds…

February 17, 2013, 9:30 p.m. – Newfoundland & Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is reporting power outages to some customers on the Great Northern Peninsula. Due to a severe winter storm creating unsafe working conditions for crews, approximately 5400 customers north from Sally’s Cove will experience an extended into tomorrow. Intermittent outages began in this area late…

January 29, 2013 – Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) today launched an electricity educational resource, Power Your Knowledge. The program is designed to educate youth on the importance of electricity, and how electricity is generated and delivered to homes, businesses and institutions such as hospitals and schools. Most importantly, it teaches them how to be…

January 28, 2013 – Darren Moore, General Manager of Transmission and Rural Operations will launch Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro’s new electricity education school resource, Power Your Knowledge, Tuesday, January 29 at 9:00 a.m. at Hazelwood Elementary, 391 Topsail Road in St. John’s. The program is designed to educate youth on the importance of electricity, and…

January 20, 2013, Noon – Newfoundland & Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is advising that all customers on Fogo Island are currently experiencing a power outage after having been restored shortly after 11:00 a.m. Power is being supplied to Fogo Island through the spare subsea cable from Change Islands. When power was restored, the system overloaded causing…

January 20, 2013, 8:00 a.m. – Newfoundland & Labrador Hydro (Hydro) is continuing its efforts today to restore power to all customers on Fogo Island. Following an outage at approximately 3:30 p.m. yesterday, crews were dispatched to site to investigate but could not determine the exact cause of the outage. Line crews will complete a…

January 19, 2013, 7:30 p.m. – Newfoundland & Labrador Hydro (Hydro) wishes to advise all customers on Fogo Island of a possible extended outage into tomorrow.   Following an outage at approximately 3:30 p.m., which also affected power to customers on Change Islands momentarily, a line crew was dispatched to investigate a fault in the…

January 11, 2013, 5 p.m. – Repairs are underway at the Holyrood Generating Station. The station is now receiving power and crews are working to bring the generating units online. Once generation is available, additional power will be supplied to Newfoundland Power for its customers. Some electricity consumers on the Avalon Peninsula and some areas…