Planned outage to affect part of downtown Toronto core on December 16 from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m.

TORONTO, Dec. 15, 2018 /CNW/ - Hydro One and Toronto Hydro are advising 1,700 customers located in the downtown Toronto core of planned work required to replace a critical piece of equipment at Hydro One's Cecil Transmission Station. This work will help ensure continued reliability in the area and the station equipment must be de-energized for the duration of the job.

Who: 1,700 Toronto Hydro customers within the following boundaries: College Street south to Dundas Street and Huron Street East to University Avenue.

When: Sunday, December 16 from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Please direct media calls to Hydro One's media line at 416-345-6868 or after-hours by paging 1-888-254-3992.

Advice to customers: 

• All Toronto Hydro customers affected by this planned outage will be contacted via auto-dialer. Customers requiring additional information should contact Toronto Hydro's Customer Care line at 416-542-8000.
• To help reduce traffic delays, members of the public should avoid the area for the duration of the outage.
• All streetlights without power should be treated as four-way stops.

About Hydro One Inc.:

Hydro One Inc. is a fully owned subsidiary of Hydro One Limited, Ontario's largest electricity transmission and distribution provider with more than 1.3 million valued customers, $25 billion in assets and 2017 annual revenues of nearly $6 billion. Our team of over 7,400 skilled and dedicated regular and non-regular employees proudly and safely serves suburban, rural and remote communities across Ontario through our 30,000 circuit km of high-voltage transmission and 123,000 circuit km of primary distribution networks. We are one of only six utility companies in Canada to achieve the Sustainable Electricity Company designation from the Canadian Electricity Association. We also provide advanced broadband telecommunications services on a wholesale basis utilizing our extensive fibre optic network. Hydro One Limited's common shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: H).

SOURCE Hydro One Inc.