Town wide power outage planned for Sunday morning

Fort Erie will see a brief town wide outage early Sunday as Canadian Niagara Power (CNP) restores the default supply configuration following completed transmission upgrades.

CNP says power will be interrupted between 2 and 2:30 a.m. on September 14, with work expected to take about 30 minutes.

Kristine Carmichael, director of corporate and customer services at CNP, told Fort Erie Radio in an emailed statement the time was chosen to reduce disruptions and CNP will try to shorten the interruption as much as possible.

“We appreciate our customers’ patience during these brief outages and have tried to minimize the inconvenience by scheduling times we feel are least disruptive,” said Carmichael.

CNP says it used the international power line during the upgrade project to limit how many outages were required and how long they lasted.

A planned outage at about 2 a.m. on July 26 lasted four minutes, but another outage hit parts of town roughly 12 hours later.

The unexpected outage persisted for several hours between 2 and 5:14 p.m. primarily affecting Garrison Road to Dominion Road and Helena Street to Albany Street, although reports received by Fort Erie Radio suggested that the outage may have also briefly affected parts of Ridgeway and Crystal Beach.

CNP did not offer the public an explanation for the subsequent outage.

Fort Erie Radio asked whether the July events were connected and what measures are in place to prevent a similar unplanned outage on September 14, but CNP did not respond to those questions prior to publication.

CNP serves about 31,200 customers in Fort Erie, Port Colborne and Gananoque.

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