Over 4,500 Nova Scotia Power customers in the dark in large outage
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Thousands of Nova Scotia Power customers are in the dark amid a large outage stretching from Head of Chezzetcook and Musquodoboit Harbour to Little Harbour and Ship Harbour.
Thousands of Nova Scotia Power customers are in the dark this morning amid a large outage stretching from Head of Chezzetcook and Musquodoboit Harbour to Little Harbour and Ship Harbour.
The utility says the outage, impacting 4,355 customers as of 7 a.m., began Wednesday evening just before 10 p.m. and it expects power to be restored later this morning.
Nova Scotia Power says the outage is due to a “transmission interruption,” and was not immediately available for comment.
A second, smaller outage northeast of that one, is impacting an additional 228 customers as of 7 a.m. in Frasers Mills and surrounding areas.
Nova Scotia Power is currently asking the Nova Scotia Utilities and Review Board for a general rate hike of nearly 14 per cent over the next two years, however the provincial government is attempting to limit that increase.
Natural Resources Minister Tory Rushton has said amendments to the Public Utilities Act would prevent the provincial regulator from approving an increase based on the utility’s costs, with the exceptions of fuel costs and those that improve the reliability of the grid.
