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More than 19,000 Hydro-Québec customers remained without power Wednesday morning
Hydro-Quebec maintained on Tuesday that the vast majority of its customers without electricity since the passage of the storm last Friday will be supplied again by Wednesday. However, the state…
Winter Storm | More than 19,000 Hydro-Québec customers still without power
(Montreal) Hydro-Quebec maintained Tuesday that the vast majority of its customers without electricity since the passage of the storm last Friday will be supplied again by this Wednesday. Posted at…
Winter Storm | The state of the network is not the cause of the outages, says Hydro-Québec
The state of the Hydro-Québec (HQ) electricity distribution network, whose reliability is in “marked decline” according to a recent report by the Auditor General, is not to blame for the…
Bad weather deprived more than 350,000 Hydro-Québec customers of electricity
Thousands of Quebecers could spend New Year’s Eve and December 25 without electricity, while 1,100 Hydro-Québec employees will work almost tirelessly to restore power and bring back the magic of…
Winter Storm | Hydro-Québec wants to restore power to broken customers by Christmas Eve
The majority of Quebecers will not have to spend Christmas in the dark. Hydro-Quebec aims to restore most of the more than 340,000 customers without electricity before Sunday evening, December…
Customers without electricity | Hydro-Québec wants to restore power before Christmas Eve
The majority of Quebecers will not have to spend Christmas in the dark. Hydro-Quebec aims to restore most of the nearly 340,000 customers without electricity before Sunday evening, December 25.…
Hilo costs tens of millions of dollars to Hydro-Québec
Since the creation of Hilo, a subsidiary of Hydro-Québec dedicated to energy conservation, the state corporation has injected at least $30 million into it, according to estimates by the Homework.…
Inflation could give Hydro-Québec $125 million in overpayments
By adjusting its rates to inflation instead of having them set by the Régie de l’énergie, Hydro-Québec would accumulate overpayments of $125 million next year, according to an analysis. •…
Wind power generation | Quebec wants to give Hydro-Quebec more time for its call for tenders
(Montreal) Quebec will give more time to Hydro-Quebec to publish a call for tenders for the production of wind energy. The projects would not have been carried out under optimal…
Remuneration: no “sobriety” at Hydro-Québec
Salaries and benefits at Hydro-Québec are about 20% better paid than what is offered for similar positions at large employers such as Bombardier, the Caisse de depot or the City…
Energy sobriety | Hydro-Québec wants to increase its subsidies for heat pumps
(Quebec) The Minister of the Economy, Pierre Fitzgibbon, wants Quebecers to turn to energy sobriety, and Hydro-Quebec has a solution: it proposes to him to change the law to allow…
Hydro-Québec refuses to give up the Magpie River
After granting “legal personality” status to the Magpie River, First Nations representatives took advantage of the UN conference on biodiversity (COP15) to advocate for the protection of this important waterway…
Can Hydro-Québec evade heritage laws?
In Drummondville, the demolition of an almost century-old house on the perimeter of the Hemming hydroelectric power station, which has housed generations of electricity workers, was to be carried out…
Auditor’s report: marked drop in the reliability of the service offered by Hydro-Québec
Power outages are increasing and lasting longer and longer, deplores the Auditor General of Quebec, concluding that the reliability of the service offered by Hydro-Quebec to the population leaves something…
Hydro-Quebec: the reliability of the service “shows a marked decline”, says the VG
Hydro-Québec’s services are less and less reliable, and the Crown corporation is not ready to deal with the aging of its assets, notes the auditor general. • Read also: Pandemic:…
Auditor General’s Report | Hydro-Québec is becoming less and less reliable
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Former Hydro-Quebec employee | Criminal charges should not be politicized, says Chinese consulate
In the wake of the arrest of a Chinese national accused of economic espionage at Hydro-Québec, the Consulate General of China in Montreal wants cases of the kind that end…
Hydro-Québec is betting optimistically on the goodwill of its subscribers
New dams? Wind farms? None of this will meet the growth in demand for electricity in the next five years. Hydro-Québec is therefore forced to convince its customers to consume…
Legault was unaware of the existence of a study on the new needs of Hydro-Québec
Prime Minister François Legault was unaware of the existence of a study commissioned by his government indicating that it will take 137 TWh, rather than 100 TWh as he said…
Industrial customers | Hydro-Québec no longer wants to be forced to say yes
Because it is overwhelmed with projects and electricity is becoming scarcer, Hydro-Québec no longer wants to be forced to accept connection requests for less than 50 megawatts. Posted at 6:00…