The pace of power restoration in Quebec was expected to slow down on Saturday.
The temporary measure applies to stores in six particularly hard-hit regions: Montreal, Monteregie, Laval, Outaouais, Laurentides and Lanaudiere.
Grocery shopping was also on the agenda for Mildred Clement, who spent the past two days at her son’s home along with her 89-year-old mother. “The bulk part of our distribution system has been restored, so now we are doing some work on outages with a smaller amount of customers attached to them,” Maxime Nadeau, the utility’s director of energy system control, said at the morning news conference. “So when we restore an outage, fewer customers regain power. So the rhythm of restoration will be slower.”
Fitzgibbon also attributed the grocery store measure to the slower pace of repairs, noting it would benefit those waiting longest to come back on the grid.
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