Hydro-Québec says greater than 10,700 clients are nonetheless with out energy every week after a significant winter storm knocked out transmission strains throughout the province.
The utility says the facility continues to be out for greater than 3,300 clients within the Quebec Metropolis space, about 2,800 shoppers within the Laurentians area, and for roughly 1,200 clients within the Outaouais area.
Hydro-Québec has mentioned it could not present an finish date for all of the outages.
The storm that introduced wind, freezing rain and snow hit Quebec on Dec. 23, and at its top knocked out energy for greater than 350,000 clients.
Normand Mousseau, scientific director of the Institut de l'énergie Trottier at Polytechnique Montréal, mentioned Wednesday that the prolonged outages are an indication that Quebec's grid is fragile and that the province is unprepared for its shift away from fossil fuels.
An auditor basic's report in December discovered that Hydro-Québec's service has develop into much less dependable and that the provincial Crown company is not absolutely outfitted to deal with the challenges related to an growing old grid.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Dec. 29, 2022.
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