South Edmonton outage leaves 24,000 customers without power: EPCOR

A large section of south Edmonton was briefly without power on Wednesday afternoon.

It went out around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday for around 24,000 customers.

In a statement to CityNews, EPCOR said, “We’re aware of two power outages that affected just over 24,000 customers in south Edmonton this afternoon. Power was out for around 25 minutes for approximately 13,000 of those customers and the remaining customers had power restored within 45 minutes.”

“Our priority is to provide safe, reliable electricity. While our electrical system is designed to handle a wide variety of conditions, outages do occur for a variety of reasons. We’re currently looking into the cause of today’s outages. We thank Edmontonians for their patience and for supporting our crews,” EPCOR added.

Several customers took to social media to post about the outage that caused shops in South Edmonton Common to shut down and affected traffic lights.

The first outage affecting more than 13,000 customers included: Bearspaw, Calgary Trail South, Duggan, Edmonton Research and Development Park, Ermineskin, Hillview, Kameyosek, Keheewin, Lee Ridge, Meyonohk, Mill Woods Park, Mill Woods Town Centre, Papaschase Industrial, Parsons Industrial, Richfield, Rideau Park, Satoo, South Edmonton Common, Steinhauer, Strathcona Industrial Park, Tawa, Tipaskan and Tweddle Place.

The second, affecting nearly 14,000 people, included: Allendale, Argyll, Avonmore, Belgravia, Bonnie Doon, Calgary Trail North, Coronet Addition Industrial, Coronet Industrial, CPR Irvine, Davies Industrial West, Duggan, Empire Park, Grandview Heights, Hazeldean, King Edward Park, Lendrum Place, Mill Creek Ravine North, Mill Creek Ravine South, Papaschase Industrial, Parkallen, Pleasantview, Rideau Park, Ritchie, River Valley Whitemud, Rosedale Industrial, Strathcona Junction and the University of Alberta Farm.