Cornwall Electric experienced a substation outage at approximately 12:32 pm, today, September 12, 2024, impacting over 9,000 customers on the east end of Cornwall and Highway #2 East. The areas affected were McConnell Ave to Ninth St as far as Campbell St to Sunrise Acres and east from McConnell Ave to Second St to the Cornwall Square. The outage occurred due to wildlife in one of Cornwall Electric’s critical system components. The electrical equipment operated as designed to protect the system. Cornwall Electric employees quickly restored power in accordance with the restoration plan.
All power was restored within 18 minutes.
Cornwall Electric does apologize to its customers for the outage. If any customer is still without power, please contact us at 613-932-0123.