Many Summerside homes face 5-hour blackout overnight [Video]

Many Summerside residents will be in the dark again overnight Wednesday due to a scheduled power outage from 1 to 6 a.m. AT.

This comes after a series of power challenges the city has faced over the past two weeks due to a failure at Maritime Electric’s Sherbrooke substation.

“This outage is necessary for Maritime Electric to connect Summerside to its mobile transfer unit at the Sherbrooke Substation, an interim solution to help stabilize the city’s power grid,” the City of Summerside said in a news release Tuesday.

Not all Summerside residents will be affected by the outage, just homes connected to circuits 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 11. People can find out which power circuit they are on by checking this map: Electrical-Circuit-Map

Those seven circuits were selected to maximize the power availability for Summerside residents, the news release said.