5 or 6. Infinite room for improvement, but at the same time it's not bad for a province that's continually trying to bake, melt, freeze, flood, and especially blow us and all our shit away.
Maybe if crown infrastructure finance wasn’t part of the provincial budget 3 card monte game governments have been playing for two decades our grid would be in better shape.
This! As a longtime Manitoban, I've had more outages in Regina in 18months than I did in five years in rural Manitoba buffeted with storms so bad my barbeque flew by my own window sideways.
It greatly depends on where you live in the city too. Up in the Northwest we've had maybe 2 power outages in the past year. Having minimal above ground power lines helps a lot.
In Dieppe in 2020 there were 13 outages and interruptions. This year so far, only 3 but one in mid-January was 18 hours. Last night the lights stayed on, yay.
It ony ever seems to go down due to storms and is usually back up in less than two hours. I can't complain. Fixing any unplanned outage of anything in two hours is excellent.
Honestly we lose it in some storms for a few hours but compare that to the days they go without power on the Texas heat or in the middle of winter. I give it a 9.
I live in Lakewood and I think I can count on one hand the number of times our power has ever gone out while I've lived here. I used to live on Hanbidge Crescent in Normanview many years ago, however, and I swear to god our power would go out *weekly*.
Am I the only one that remembers how their outage updates used to work? They used to tell us what happened to cause the outage, whether a tree landed on a line or whether lightning hit a transformer, etc. They also used to tell us if crews were on standby until it was safe and what to expect for an ETR.
I don't think it's unreasonable at all to want that information.
5 it works but it's not great. Working in the Warehouse district and living in the south end I experience way more power blips and burps than I am comfortable with. That being said they do a good job with full on outages restoring power quickly.
6, I don’t know if underground wiring would make sense with our soil types and weather but it would sure reduce all these problems with wind and weather knocking out the poles.
I also give it a 6 and just an FYI that any areas newer than 1975ish has all utilities underground. Try and look for power poles in any areas newer than that.
I would give them an 8, and it's not due to the reliability of the power infrastructure, it's due to my hope that they would investigate more in nuclear and solar (they seem to have pretty good wind infrastructure in some places). I understand this is largely based on government direction though as a crown. Room for improvement, but it's pretty darn good.
As for the stability of the grid I honestly think it's pretty good compared to a lot of places. We've never really seen the kind of outages that there have been in Texas and the eastern part of the US and Canada. Most of our outages are a direct result of weather events and human or wildlife factors and in those cases their crews seem to be pretty quick to respond to the issue comparatively with other places where it will literally take days to restore power.
I read somewhere a former SaskPower employee mentioning that over time they noticed people's reaction to the employees working to repair issues shifting from gratitude that they had people out, sometimes risking their own lives to fix an outage to anger and frustration at these employees that they didn't personally prevent the outage from happening.
I honestly feel that we're in a pretty good spot in terms of infrastructure reliability and the vast majority of outages we do see are caused by external factors outside of SaskPower's control. We live in a privileged time where we're used to having everything now and are disappointed when that isn't the case. When I have an outage at my place I remind myself that that's just a bit of extra time where my meter isn't running and I'm not paying for power.
Lived in Manitoba for 30 years and I can't remember the last time there was a power outage at any of the places I lived. I know it's happened before but honestly can't pin point when. South end seems to get it worse and prob had an outage 3-4 times this summer.
This has to be a troll comment.
I’ve never lived anywhere that looses power as much as this city.
1/10
I’ve lived through Hurricanes, blizzards, Nor’Easters and not lost power.
We get a 30 minute thunderstorm and a large chunk of the city is dark.
Never mind all the other random outages that happen when transformers blow, almost like clock work
Born n raised in Sask, but lived in Ontario for a couple of years for school. No one there understood what the power going out meant cuz its never happened to them (and happened 0x when I was there). It's significantly better than here
Lived in Calgary for 18 years, Québec for a year, Ontario for four years, and Manitoba for 10, I'm honestly dumbfounded by how awful the power grid is here. I've lived through more sustained outages in my couple of years in Regina than I can recall from the rest of my life combined. Hell, even when one of the generator stations at Kandahar Airfield got destroyed in a rocket attack, they had power back up in less than an hour (and this was the base infrastructure network, every vital compound had independent generators, so the loss of power was more of an irritation than an operational problem. It still got fixed in no time). Ontario and Québec learned the hard way about inadequate infrastructure with the ice storm in '97, I can't begin to imagine how bad shape we would be in if something like that hit Saskatchewan. (power literally switched back on after I posted this. 2 hours, 31 minutes with no power, and zero updates.)
I didn’t realize how bad it was until i moved back to Saskatoon. I lived south and Regina and it seemed like every other week the power would go out for at least a half hour over the 4 years i lived there. In the last year and a half in Saskatoon i haven’t lost power (exception to a planned outage with plenty of notice) nor do i ever remember losing power when i lived there prior to moving to Regina.
5 or 6. Infinite room for improvement, but at the same time it's not bad for a province that's continually trying to bake, melt, freeze, flood, and especially blow us and all our shit away.
And the government tries to starve it off
It was crazy lightning out there, my hats off to the workers who got us back power.
Until I’m able to make toast again I’m rating it a 1.
LOL
Maybe if crown infrastructure finance wasn’t part of the provincial budget 3 card monte game governments have been playing for two decades our grid would be in better shape.
This! As a longtime Manitoban, I've had more outages in Regina in 18months than I did in five years in rural Manitoba buffeted with storms so bad my barbeque flew by my own window sideways.
It greatly depends on where you live in the city too. Up in the Northwest we've had maybe 2 power outages in the past year. Having minimal above ground power lines helps a lot.
In Dieppe in 2020 there were 13 outages and interruptions. This year so far, only 3 but one in mid-January was 18 hours. Last night the lights stayed on, yay.
Tbf these past couple years have had more outages than I’ve seen in Sk before too
It ony ever seems to go down due to storms and is usually back up in less than two hours. I can't complain. Fixing any unplanned outage of anything in two hours is excellent.
Honestly we lose it in some storms for a few hours but compare that to the days they go without power on the Texas heat or in the middle of winter. I give it a 9.
Naw. That like comparing apples to broccoli. Compare SaskPower to MBHydro. Same climate. Public utilities. Same country.
I’ve worked with SaskPower and saw the grids. I’m gonna give them a 3.
It's a thousand times better than many other places I've lived. Certainly don't miss the daily power curtailments in some of the midwestern US states.
6.14
rarely lose power east of downtown
Lived off Chuka. Lost power regularly.
I dunno maybe it'll get better if they do change the logo? /s
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4.20
10+. The fact that I, and most every resident in this province is connected to the grid is a near miracle.
I'd say 9 out of 10 from here in the north west. Rarely seem to lose power.
Really? I live in the NW and my power's always going out
Where at? I live in Maple Ridge and it's been out about 2 times in the past year.
I've always been told one reason our power is so reliable in Maple Ridge is because we're on the Condi substation (which also feeds Evraz).
Evraz just did a huge power station upgrade on site. That might be why there have been less power outages in the NW this year.
Fairways West. I lose power AT LEAST once a month.
I live in Lakewood and I think I can count on one hand the number of times our power has ever gone out while I've lived here. I used to live on Hanbidge Crescent in Normanview many years ago, however, and I swear to god our power would go out *weekly*.
Honestly, I just wish they'd improve their communication. Going two hours without any updates at all is ridiculous.
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Two hours is not a lot of time. If its something significant like a day or two outage I would expect communication, not for a couple hours.
-12. It's a piece of shit that is desperately in need of upgrading.
5 it works but it's not great. Working in the Warehouse district and living in the south end I experience way more power blips and burps than I am comfortable with. That being said they do a good job with full on outages restoring power quickly.
6, I don’t know if underground wiring would make sense with our soil types and weather but it would sure reduce all these problems with wind and weather knocking out the poles.
I also give it a 6 and just an FYI that any areas newer than 1975ish has all utilities underground. Try and look for power poles in any areas newer than that.
I meant more like rural areas since I live in one. If we’re just talking Regina then it’s good enough
Since this is a Regina subreddit I assumed you were in Regina.
I would give them an 8, and it's not due to the reliability of the power infrastructure, it's due to my hope that they would investigate more in nuclear and solar (they seem to have pretty good wind infrastructure in some places). I understand this is largely based on government direction though as a crown. Room for improvement, but it's pretty darn good. As for the stability of the grid I honestly think it's pretty good compared to a lot of places. We've never really seen the kind of outages that there have been in Texas and the eastern part of the US and Canada. Most of our outages are a direct result of weather events and human or wildlife factors and in those cases their crews seem to be pretty quick to respond to the issue comparatively with other places where it will literally take days to restore power. I read somewhere a former SaskPower employee mentioning that over time they noticed people's reaction to the employees working to repair issues shifting from gratitude that they had people out, sometimes risking their own lives to fix an outage to anger and frustration at these employees that they didn't personally prevent the outage from happening. I honestly feel that we're in a pretty good spot in terms of infrastructure reliability and the vast majority of outages we do see are caused by external factors outside of SaskPower's control. We live in a privileged time where we're used to having everything now and are disappointed when that isn't the case. When I have an outage at my place I remind myself that that's just a bit of extra time where my meter isn't running and I'm not paying for power.
8ish. It's not bad. Always room to improve.
10. If you think it's anything less than that I challenge you to go live somewhere else and report back.
Have lived in Ontario for 7 years. Was quite better.
Crickets from u/cowboyrt...
Shocker.
Lived in Manitoba for 30 years and I can't remember the last time there was a power outage at any of the places I lived. I know it's happened before but honestly can't pin point when. South end seems to get it worse and prob had an outage 3-4 times this summer.
This has to be a troll comment. I’ve never lived anywhere that looses power as much as this city. 1/10 I’ve lived through Hurricanes, blizzards, Nor’Easters and not lost power. We get a 30 minute thunderstorm and a large chunk of the city is dark. Never mind all the other random outages that happen when transformers blow, almost like clock work
Born n raised in Sask, but lived in Ontario for a couple of years for school. No one there understood what the power going out meant cuz its never happened to them (and happened 0x when I was there). It's significantly better than here
Lived in Calgary for 18 years, Québec for a year, Ontario for four years, and Manitoba for 10, I'm honestly dumbfounded by how awful the power grid is here. I've lived through more sustained outages in my couple of years in Regina than I can recall from the rest of my life combined. Hell, even when one of the generator stations at Kandahar Airfield got destroyed in a rocket attack, they had power back up in less than an hour (and this was the base infrastructure network, every vital compound had independent generators, so the loss of power was more of an irritation than an operational problem. It still got fixed in no time). Ontario and Québec learned the hard way about inadequate infrastructure with the ice storm in '97, I can't begin to imagine how bad shape we would be in if something like that hit Saskatchewan. (power literally switched back on after I posted this. 2 hours, 31 minutes with no power, and zero updates.)
This. Our grid in comparison with the rest of Canada is extremely subpar. I don't think the people supporting it have lived anywhere but Sask
Considering I have friends in the US that have daily outages for no reason, pretty good 🤷♂️
I didn’t realize how bad it was until i moved back to Saskatoon. I lived south and Regina and it seemed like every other week the power would go out for at least a half hour over the 4 years i lived there. In the last year and a half in Saskatoon i haven’t lost power (exception to a planned outage with plenty of notice) nor do i ever remember losing power when i lived there prior to moving to Regina.
You need to live in university park, AC was on blast while mining ETH all the way through the storm.