Maritime Electric is dealing with double trouble in its efforts to restore electricity to tens of thousands of customers on Prince Edward Island. That leaves Maritime Electric faced with both firing up on-Island generation and repairing extensive damage to its infrastructure. Outages peaked at 51,000 customers for Maritime Electric, and all 7,000 Summerside Electric customers were also out. Maritime Electric intends to fire up 90 megawatts of on-Island generation, but peak demand in the province is 260 megawatts. Plow dispatchers are reporting not only poor weather conditions, but in Prince and Queens counties there are downed power lines across roads.

Source: CBC News November 29, 2018 10:22 UTC