In accordance with the utility’s outage map software, greater than 1,300 clients had been with out energy as of about 6:30 p.m. within the Centretown space.

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Hydro Ottawa was reporting an influence outage affecting the downtown core Monday night.

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In accordance with the utility’s outage map tool, greater than 1,300 Hydro Ottawa clients had been with out energy as of about 6:30 p.m. within the Centretown space, in blocks surrounding principally Somerset Road between Bronson Avenue and Cartier Road.

Prospects had been additionally with out energy Monday night in elements of the Golden Triangle neighbourhood and within the space of the Rideau Centre, the place folks reported they had been directed out of the mall following the outage.

Hydro Ottawa stated on Twitter it was experiencing an outage “resulting from a lack of energy from the provincial grid.” It stated crews had been working with Hydro One, the provincial energy supplier to revive service.

Hydro Ottawa stated late night updates on Twitter that some clients had energy again and that it anticipated energy to be completely restored by 11 p.m. It additionally stated it was knowledgeable by Hydro One which the reason for the outage was “animal contact.”