75,000 homes in Calgary without power

[Brent F]

Our power has been out for an hour and a half so far. Tanks are slowly cooling. Down 2 degrees so far.

February 11 south Calgary power outage

11:00 AM February 11-

An early morning sub-station outage in South Calgary, caused by ice fog leading to an equipment failure, has led to further widespread outages in southern parts of the City.

Several sub-stations are involved and areas south of Glenmore are affected. Approximately 75,000 customers are currently without power.

Although the cause of these outages is still under investigation, we believe they are probably due to weather-related conditions, including early morning fog in some areas.

Redundancies in the power system, which are usually compensate for outages, were in this case unavailable due to planned upgrade activities.

Crews are actively working on restoring power as quickly as possible.