Hydro One continued to make significant progress restoring power last week to more than 316,000 customers after an April 5 wind storm. The company received assistance from contractors and other local electricity distribution companies to restore power to customers as quickly and safely as possible.
"Our teams are working tirelessly to restore power to customers and we're grateful to have support from fellow utilities and contractors, especially over the Easter holiday long weekend," said Chong Kiat Ng, vice president, Distribution, Hydro One, on April 7. "We want our customers to know we have every available resource working to restore power. We know families and friends are hoping to spend time together over this holiday, and we are committed to working hard until every customer has their power restored."
"My thoughts are with the residents of eastern Ontario impacted by this recent storm," said Todd Smith, Minister of Energy. "I'd like to thank the hundreds of frontline hydro workers from Hydro One and local utilities across the province, who are working together to get the lights back on for every single customer as quickly as possible."
Hydro One would like to thank the following utilities and contractors for their assistance:
- Ainsworth INC.
- Alectra Utilities
- Bluewater Power Distribution Corporation
- Devries Power and Utilities
- Dundas Power Line Ltd.
- Durham Electric and Equipment Co. Ltd.
- EPCOR
- Hannon Electric Company
- Highline Construction Inc
- Holland Power Services
- Iconic Power Systems
- K-line Construction Ltd
- .Lakefront Utilities Services Inc.
- Lakeland Power Distribution Ltd.
- North Bay Hydro
- Oakville Hydro Electricity Distribution Inc.
- Toronto Hydro
- T&T Line Construction Ltd.
- Utilities Kingston
- Valard Construction LP
- Vickers Power Services
Hydro One has a number of easy to use outage tools available for customers to report power outages and easily access updates when and how they want. Customers can report outages by texting 92887 (WATTS), through the company's outage map and app, or by calling 1-800-434-1235.
An estimated time of restoration is determined for each outage once damage has been assessed by crews. Hydro One's outage tools are updated every 10 minutes as information comes in from crews on the ground.
