{"id":656976,"date":"2026-05-08T23:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656976\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:29:07","slug":"it-was-within-our-system-hydro-one-says-algoma-steel-didnt-cause-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656976\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was within our system\u2019: Hydro One says Algoma Steel didn\u2019t cause outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 34,000 customers were without power when the city&#8217;s supply of electricity was cut off on May 1<\/p>\n<p>Although Hydro One can\u2019t yet say what caused last Friday\u2019s massive power outage, they have ruled out Algoma Steel\u2019s electric arc furnace as the culprit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was within our system and not caused by a third party,\u201d said Bianca Meta, media relations coordinator with Hydro One, Ontario&#8217;s largest electricity transmission and distribution service provider.<\/p>\n<p>A total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sootoday.com\/local-news\/power-knocked-out-for-huge-swath-of-city-12222243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">34,065 customers were without power<\/a> as the city&#8217;s supply of electricity was cut off shortly before 11 a.m. on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>As of 11:54 a.m., PUC reported that 75 per cent of customers&#8217; power was restored and by 12:18 p.m. power was completely restored.<\/p>\n<p>PUC said the outage was caused by a loss of supply from the provincial power grid and Hydro One was trying to determine how that happened.<\/p>\n<p>SooToday hopes to\u00a0have more information on the cause soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 34,000 customers were without power when the city&#8217;s supply of electricity was cut off on May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-656976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656976","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=656976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}