Power has been restored after a outage left a couple thousand customers in the west end of the metro region in the dark.
The outage knocked out a big portion of the capital city region around 12:40 p.m. this afternoon due to a problem with the Kenmount Road Substation.
Earlier Story
A major outage is affecting a large portion of the St. John’s metro region.
Residents heard a series of booms when the power went down around 12:40 p.m. this afternoon.
Newfoundland Power is investigating the cause of the outage, but they do know that the problem is with the Kenmount Road substation. The estimated time of restoration is not yet known.
Traffic lights are affected so drivers have to be careful and keep in mind that it will be slow going in some areas.
VOCM News is following the story and will have more information as it becomes available.