{"id":431242,"date":"2026-01-25T00:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431242\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:11:11","slug":"rotating-outages-possible-on-island-says-nl-hydro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431242\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotating Outages Possible on Island says NL Hydro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rob Collett of NL Hydro, and Byron Chubbs of NF Power address concerns over the freezing weather,<\/p>\n

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is facing an unprecedented situation with the total shutdown of the province\u2019s largest power plant, Bay d\u2019Espoir. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s because of very thick \u201cfrazil\u201d ice which will take days to chip away. <\/p>\n

Electricity output is near maximum capacity, and residential and commercial customers are being asked to do whatever they can to conserve. <\/p>\n

Hydro VP Rob Collett assures that this is not Dark NL as they are at the \u201cPower Warning\u201d stage. The next stage would be \u201cPower Emergency\u201d and that is where rotating outages would kick in. <\/p>\n

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NF Power VP Byron Chubbs says any area on a rotating outage would be without electricity for a maximum of 60 minutes, but there would be no notice prior as to which area would go dark and when. <\/p>\n

However, there would be notice that the utilities are going into the Power Emergency stage. <\/p>\n

Chubbs says all customers on the island would be susceptible to the rotating outages. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be a sequence where they\u2019re working all the way from top to bottom and then back to the first group again so that it\u2019s spread out fairly across the island,\u201d says Chubbs.<\/p>\n

Chubbs says the most vulnerable period will be this evening through Monday. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s colder again tomorrow and it\u2019s colder even again on Monday but temperatures do start to warm up on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n

The province is importing power from Nova Scotia, getting some from Muskrat Falls and from Holyrood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rob Collett of NL Hydro, and Byron Chubbs of NF Power address concerns over the freezing weather,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-431242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}