Prince George, B.C.- For the second time  this week, the power is off to residents  in a triangular shaped region bounded by Willow River on the west, Hutton on the east and Aleza Lake on the north.

Hydro’s Bob Gammer says the  outage is the result of  not one but two problems.  "The  service was  lost around 12:20 today when  the transmission line went down" says Gammer.  That tansmission line feeds the substation,  and while  repairs focused on that line, it tripped several times before  the repair was complete.

Then,  the  distribution line went down "The  crew that works on the distribution line is a different crew than the  one  that works on the transmission line,  they are different specialties, so that crew (distribution) is now working on the problem and we hope to have the distribution line repaired and service restored by 11:30 tonight." 

Gammer says crews did spot  tree branches on the distribution line and that is the suspected cause of the outage  along that line.

277 customers are impacted by the outage.