Nova Scotia Power ‘working around the clock’ to restore power
Posted Feb 6, 2022 04:35:00 PM.
Nova Scotia Power (NSP) says its crew is “working around the clock” trying to restore power after the province saw several hours of freezing rain this weekend.
“We currently have about 600 people — power line technicians, forestry workers, damage assessors, traffic control and others — on the ground across the province helping to restore power, and hundreds more working behind the scenes supporting our crews and customers,” says NSP storm lead Matt Drover in a news release.
During the icy storm in Nova Scotia on Friday, NSP says around 120,000 customers lost power. On Sunday, there are still more than 20,000 customers across the province without power.
In the Halifax area, people living near the Sackville, Beaver Bank and Uniacke areas were hit hardest — and those residents are still the ones seeing outages on Sunday.
“The biggest challenge has been the significant ice accumulation on trees causing branches to fall on lines causing outages,” NSP says in its release. “Road conditions and storm debris have also slowed our crews from getting to impacted areas as well — particularly in rural Nova Scotia.'
On Friday morning, NSP activated its Emergency Operations Centre ahead of the storm. The centre provides a central place to coordinate planning for outage restoration and response.
NSP says it will stay in place until the “last customer is safely restored.”
NSP senior communications officer Jacqueline Foster said in an email that most customers experiencing power outages should see restoration at some point on Sunday.
“As crews complete restoration work in different parts of the province, they will be moved into the harder hit areas to assist with restoration there, as well,” she added.
