A partial outage occurred in Tuktoyaktuk, beginning just before 6:00 pm on Easter Monday. The outage occurred when a third-party vehicle took down a guy wire on a distribution line. There was a short-lived full community outage but power was quickly restored to most customers -- unfortunately, approximately 160 customers remained without power.
Planning began to get a line crew into the community to restore power but this proved more challenging than expected. Members of the line crew had already spent most of the day working on the new distribution line from the Inuvik High Point Wind site.
We were unable to find an available plane to charter and the highway to Tuktoyaktuk was initially closed due to high winds. The winds eventually weakened and the highway was reopened. Travel conditions were still challenging but the line crew was able to make it to the community shortly after 11 pm.
The crew began restoration work and power was fully restored to all customers by approximately 2:00 am.
Thank you to the team working out of Inuvik. Your efforts to support our customers in less-than-ideal circumstances is greatly appreciated.
Additional photos from Tuktoyaktuk are attached.