Hats off to @nspowerinc for 4700 power outages in Nova Scotia in 2024. One day—one single day— was free of an outage somewhere in the province. Most $$$$ rates for the worst service.
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There will be a short 15-minute outage affecting Glace Bay and surrounding communities beginning at 9:30 p.m. tonight. The outage will allow our crews to safely complete additional work required as a result of the earlier outages. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
There will be a brief, 15-minute outage tonight, Monday, January 20, starting at 10:30 PM. This outage will affect customers in #HammondsPlains, including areas of Lucasville and St. Margaret’s Bay Road. During proactive maintenance today, an issue was identified and will be
Today started with a 6 hour power outage. At -8c (windchill at -18). I understand that things take time, but there are ways to prevent such outages even occur, and those things should be mandatory. @nspowerinc
Areas of the province are experiencing high wind and rain this morning, resulting in power outages. Our crews are in the field working to restore power safely and as quickly as possible. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience as you start your day. Please visit our outage
Our regularly scheduled power outage in upper tantallon.. @nspowerinc service and reliability is beyond GARBAGE! @TimHoustonNS @nspc
Planned outage 11pm until 7am. Power doesn't come back until 9:30am. Then back out at 10:15am. What are we paying you for @nspowerinc ?
There will be a 30–60 minute emergency outage within the next hour in #Dartmouth, including Downtown Dartmouth, Victoria Road, and the Brightwood area as crews repair damaged equipment. We apologize for the inconvenience and will have power restored again shortly. Please let us
Power outage in #malagash. On line says “planned maintenance”. Except no one was notified. Do better @nspowerinc
Please note this planned outage has been adjusted to 9 PM–5 AM.
Apparently a tree is down between Cedar & Pepperell St on Shirley St in Halifax causing a local NS Power outage @ 945 pm, @nspowerinc truck has been parked there since shortly after 10 pm but no sign of work happening to repair as of 1140
Please note this outage has been cancelled and will be postponed for a later date. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Power is out. Checked the outage map to see it is apparently going to be out most of the day due to "Planned maintenance." It would have been nice to have been notified @nspowerinc #novascotiapower
An outage will affect customers in #ChurchPoint, #Comeauville, #BeaverCove, and surrounding areas this afternoon (Tuesday) between 4–4:30 PM. This outage will allow crews to safely make critical repairs to the main feeder line.
There is an outage impacting customers in the Clayton Park and Kearney Lake area so crews can safely make emergency repairs to our lines. Visit for the latest updates and estimated restoration time.
Crews are responding to an outage affecting #HALIFAX including Kearney Lake, Birch Cove and parts of Sherwood Heights and surrounding areas. Please visit for updates and estimated time of restoration.
Crews are responding to an outage affecting #Dartmouth including Montebello, Keystone Village, Unia Estates and surrounding areas. Please visit for updates and estimated time of restoration.