Toronto Hydro is finishing its $2-million maintenance and upgrading of its underground transformers in the east end early. A Toronto Hydro spokeswoman says work that was meant to be completed by the end of the month is now expected to wrap up today.
The work on Sheppard Avenue East south to the lake and Rouge Valley west to Meadowvale and Centennial roads involved replacing the residential transformers and installing fault indicators to improve power restoration times during future outages.
An estimated 2,570 people were affected by rolling outages as the work was being done over the past two months in batches of 100-200 at a time, typically between 9am and 5pm.
"Toronto Hydro has a program that addresses system reliability," says spokeswoman Jennifer Link, explaining why the work was being carried out. "Under this program, we are replacing underground distribution equipment in response to reliability concerns."
The project is part of Toronto Hydro's $275-million
PowerUp program, which is upgrading infrastructure across the city.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Jennifer Link
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