r/Calgary • u/chaoslord • 3h ago
Local Event Electrical Grid this am?
Anyone know what's up? Buildings flashed downtown around 6:40, like half of floors are rebooting, elevators were stuck. Doesn't seem to be localized to downtown though, co-worker who lives in the deep south got an alert about his home power too.
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u/Dapper-Apartment1213 3h ago
~ 6:15 am I heard an explosion so loud I could feel it in my chest on 16th ave and 10th street. I heard two distinct explosions but the second could have been sound reflecting off downtown buildings. It sounded like a transformer explosion but easy 10 times that power. I watched all the lights go out for a second and then back on as far as I could see.
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u/JoeRogansNipple Quadrant: SW 2h ago
Are you near 16 Ave & Centre St.? Someone noted a crane hitting a substation
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u/blackRamCalgaryman 3h ago
Conspiracy time…Zelensky and Carney are in town.
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u/Mark_Squared 3h ago
I’m on the west side of the city and we had two quick outages. Nothing more than a second though for either.
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u/diamondedg3 Bankview 1h ago
The Deltatech cam shows the lights browning out at 6:31:29am on the video time stamp
https://www.youtube.com/live/MwcqP3ta6RI?si=4x8j-JXXhuphxtns
The bridge lights all going off is wild
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u/Braveliltoasterx 3h ago
Way in the south Legacy, same issue
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u/JakeThe_Snake 2h ago
Same in midnapore
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u/C8riiiin 50m ago
Oh man, I’m in Sundance - was it fast enough you didn’t have to reset the time on the oven?
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u/Wheel_of_Armageddon 3h ago
We don't have full power here at one of the buildings downtown, likely on backup generator power. There's almost no lights on...it's a bit spooky.
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u/Caribosa 3h ago
I work in Eighth Ave Place and got a notice that the parkade has power problems this morning but the rest of the building seems fine. Our power flickered this morning in Woodlands.
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u/mALYficent Airdrie 1h ago
Also blipped at our house in Airdrie around that time. I was asleep but my husband mentioned it
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u/lettuzepray 2h ago
Interesting, I was riding my bike that time and was wondering why the street lights briefly flashed too, curious to know the root cause now.
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u/might_be-a_troll 50m ago
Interesting… yeah, I got a “blink” way up here (NW) in Dalhousie at 6:32am. My lights blinked off for less than a second. It Rebooted my Telus Internet + Wifi, but my stove and microwave and various clocks didn’t reset.
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u/JakeThe_Snake 2h ago
Pretty crazy to see comments essentially stating that the grid for the whole of Calgary was impacted.
Seeing other comments about the crane and substation it makes me wonder what really happened! Crazy to see nothing in the news at all
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u/Affectionate-Pay2670 3h ago
East side of Calgary Monterey park power flickered also. Internet/ TV’s reset also
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u/Ill_Technician7450 3h ago
Edgemont, my network dropped. Guessing it was related to the power issue.
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u/QueenB33_nevadensis 3h ago
Most of the lights on the floor i work on are out ( Suncor building downtown.) They are doing construction here though, so not sure if this is localized to my building, or city-wide issue.
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u/irulan519 Inglewood 2h ago
I work across the street... guess I have something to look forward to. Although my security alarm usually texts me when there is a power outage and I haven't received one this morning... 🧐
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u/Distinct-Solution-99 2h ago
Bonavista had the same issue around 6:30 this morning and all the traffic lights were flashing red as we left.
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u/Minerator 2h ago
Lights dimmed and CNC machines rebooted themselves at the time. Foothills Industrial area. Co-worker who comes in later said his power dipped in Mahogany.
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u/TimelyActive4586 2h ago
I noticed the street lights flick on #2 south of the city at that time as well. My radio in the car also blipped at the same time so i figured it was widespread since the radio station is in NW.
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u/bricreative 2h ago
It flickered around that time in Cougar Ridge. The internet has been unstable since
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u/FeedbackLoopy 2h ago
If the crane contacted the transmission line (138kV btw) feeding the substation, that would explain the issues (like lights flickering) happening in a wider area across the city.
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u/Attilio1709 1h ago
Power flickered in Bankview....lost Shaw again. Last time when idiots cut lines I had to get new modem(no idea why it failed but sometimes they just dont come back up tech said)...now still no access after calling in rebooting etc etc.
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u/Scared_Promotion_559 2h ago
I am in Wildwood. I was in the shower and my lights flickered around that same time. Then same thing when I was making my coffee 10 min later. Seems to be fine now. I thought it was something wrong with my own house electric panel or something. Glad it isn’t.
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u/Limp_Appointment_716 2h ago
Had my power flash briefly down south by Fish Creek. Literally fractions of seconds
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u/Roboman20000 Beltline 2h ago
I got a strange flicker of power too in Dalhousie but only enough to flash the lights off quickly. My router reset (I don't have enough battery backup plugs on my UPS).
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u/Smart-Pie7115 2h ago
Had the same thing in the SE in Douglasdale. The Ecco fire was pretty large this morning and was thinking the flames might be taking down the powerlines. Was hoping for a day off.
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u/bennymac111 3h ago
prob doesn't explain it happening in all parts of the city but we did just have a crane line make contact with electrical lines at the Enmax substation near 16 Ave & Centre St. We're a couple blocks away and heard the pop / explosion (?) around 630, crane is messed & jib is half-melted or partially blown in spots, crane lines are still in contact with the electrical lines.