Power Cut To South Calgary

(Feb 11, 2008) Power is off in most of South Calgary this morning as Enmax crews attempt to diagnose the cause of the disruption. There was a minor power bump around 7:15 this morning due to an outage in a single substation near the SE community of Douglasdale, but a cascading failure at 10:15 took an additional 5 substations offline.

Enmax crews are working on the problem and hope to have power restored before 1PM today. Let's hope that's the case, as even though it's warmer out today (currently about -10C), we've already resorted to sweaters (and battery power for computers). Close to 70,000 customers have been affected by the outage.

*11:45AM Update* While power has been restored to a number of communities in SW Calgary, there are still approximately 50,000 customers who remain in the dark. Enmax is saying "Redundancies in the power system, which usually compensate for outages, were in this case unavailable due to planned upgrade activities."

Jim Sparrow sells Calgary Real Estate with Keller Williams Platinum Realty & specializes in South Calgary estate and luxury homes. Visit our website at Calgary Luxury Real Estate or contact me directly at 403.703.2404

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