More than 7,800 Yukoners lost power for up to 90 minutes Monday.
“Our crews were doing some equipment upgrades in the Whitehorse substation,” Yukon Energy tweeted. “During that work we had a unexpected malfunction of equipment in the substation and our transformer tripped.”
Our crews were doing some equipment upgrades in the Whitehorse substation. During that work we had a unexpected malfunction of equipment in the substation and our transformer tripped.
— Yukon Energy (@yukonenergy) December 11, 2017
The incident knocked out power to most of Whitehorse, plus Carcross, Tagish and the South Alaska Highway as far as Teslin, said ATCO Electric Yukon spokesperson Stephanie Cunha in an email.
Cunha said the power outage began around 11:25 a.m. Power was restored to customers starting around 11:50 a.m., with power fully restored before 1 p.m., she said.
Contact Chris Windeyer at editor@yukon-news.com