About 2,400 Epcor customers are without power in west Edmonton Thursday evening, most of them since the morning.
According to Epcor’s power-outage map, 1,332 residents in the neighbourhoods of Dechene, Donsdale, Gariepy and Jamieson Place have been without power since 8:17 a.m., with repairs expected to be finished by 8 p.m.
In the neighbourhoods of Callingwood North, Callingwood South, Oleskiw, Westridge, Lymburn and Thorncliff, Epcor says 1,050 customers have been without power since 6:35 p.m., while two customers in Westridge have been without power since 11:35 a.m.
The utility company said power is expected to be restored in the neighbourhoods between 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
A prerecorded message on Epcor’s service line asked customers to reduce power usage as Edmonton’s heat wave, which is expected to keep temperatures in the city at highs in the mid-30s into next week, because significant demand for electricity makes it “difficult” for equipment to cool down.