{"id":899600,"date":"2026-09-17T20:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899600\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:42:13","slug":"planned-power-outage-to-affect-60000-customers-in-quebec-city-region-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899600\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned power outage to affect 60,000 customers in Quebec City region this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A planned service interruption will leave around 60,000 Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec in and around the provincial capital customers without power this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>The outage will affect customers in Quebec City, Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier and L&#8217;Ancienne Lorette.<\/p>\n<p>It is scheduled to begin on Sunday, Sept. 20, at 5:30 p.m. and will be restored gradually on Monday starting at 6:30 a.m. <\/p>\n<p> Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec says it has notified affected customers by phone. <\/p>\n<p>The utility says the outage is necessary in order for work to be carried out at its Neufch\u00e2tel substation in Quebec City. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This work must be completed before winter to prevent a more serious failure that could lead to a longer outage and affect a larger number of customers,&#8221; Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec wrote in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec is also reminding customers to charge all their devices before the power is cut, and ensure they have flashlights and batteries on hand. <\/p>\n<p>To access CBC News during the outage while using minimal battery, you can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/lite\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBC Lite<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-899600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899600","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=899600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}