Newfoundland Power reports most outages now restored, after 70K customers lost service Friday
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Power has been restored to most customers as of around 6 p.m. Friday, after tens of thousands were plunged into darkness due to a trip on the Labrador-Island Link transmission line.
According to Newfoundland Power's outage center, there were multiple power outages late Friday afternoon across Newfoundland, including in St. John's, Conception Bay South, Grand Falls-Windsor and Corner Brook.
About 70,000 customers lost power altogether.
As of 7:15 p.m. NT, that number was reduced to a little more than 2,700 — mostly in the St. John's area.
There have been outages before due to the same cause.
In October 2025, a spokesperson with N.L. Hydro told CBC that a trip on the Labrador Island Link — which carries electricity from Muskrat Falls in Labrador to Newfoundland and beyond — is called an under-frequency load shed event.
An under-frequency load shed occurs when a system has power imbalance. When the system is in imbalance, predetermined blocks of customers are dropped from the system, resulting in a blackout, to protect the system from going into a widespread outage.
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