Prince George, B.C. – A potential power outage was avoided in Prince George this morning.

BC Hydro had warned residents (7,700 customers) living north of the Nechako River they may find themselves without electricity for about 3 hours.

“Well certainly we did send out notification as a precaution but we were hoping that we would have no customers out and indeed that is what’s happened,” says spokesperson Bob Gammer.

“We were able to successfully transfer the load from the Chief Lake substation circuits over to the Foothills substation circuits early this morning, do the restoration work, this repair of damaged insulators, and now we’re just finishing switching customers back.”