City of Summerside’s months-long power struggle is far from over, says mayor [Video]

Summerside’s mayor says the city’s electricity challenges are far from resolved.

P.E.I.’s second-largest city, which operates its own utility, faced a series of power disruptions this winter.

Summerside Electric generates about 60 per cent of its electricity through renewable sources like solar and wind, but it still relies on Maritime Electric’s transmission grid for power that the smaller utility buys from New Brunswick.

A failure at Maritime Electric’s Sherbrooke substation, located just north of the city, led to significant power challenges in February. As a result, residents were asked to conserve electricity and a mobile transformer had to be brought in from Newfoundland to …