(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.
However, the state company reported Wednesday morning that around 11:45 a.m., just over 18,000 of its subscribers had not yet found power.
In total, 5,647 customers without electricity were in the Capitale-Nationale region and 2,941 others in the Côte-Nord region. There were 2,225 in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and 2,823 in the Laurentians and 1,753 in Mauricie.
Earlier this week, Hydro-Québec’s senior director of operations and maintenance for Centre-du-Québec, Julie Sbeghen, warned that it was not possible to give a precise end date for the set of failures. She added that those who would remain after Wednesday, more complex or more distant, would be settled “surgically”.
On Tuesday, a spokesperson for Hydro-Québec, Cendrix Bouchard, added: “more than half of the interruptions affect ten customers or less. This means that each time we take an action, we restore service to fewer customers in recent days. This is why we see the numbers decreasing, but less rapidly than over the past two or three days.
New Brunswick teams came to reinforce some 1,100 Hydro-Québec employees who were hard at work on Tuesday to restore the situation as quickly as possible.