Updated at 12:37 p.m.: The unplanned outage in the Moonlight/Bancroft/Southlane area has been resolved, Greater Sudbury Utilities is reporting.
Greater Sudbury Hydro needed to do a quick troubleshoot test of that part of the grid in the wake of last Friday's lightning strike and subsequent outage. Unfortunately, what should have been a momentarily "blip" found more trouble than initially expected.
A switch, which is suspected to have been struck by lightning on Friday, literally fell apart, forcing crews to replace it.
GSU apologized for the inconvenience in a news release, adding it was critical that the troubleshooting on the affected piece of the grid be performed as it is the back-up power route for Health Sciences North.
Original story
Greater Sudbury Utilities has just issued a news release concerning a power outage in the Moonlight Beach area.
The outage is affecting residents in the Moonlight/Bancroft/Southlane area of Greater Sudbury.
GSU expects the issue to be resolved within the half hour.
