Update 11:30 p.m.
Just 10 New Canaan homes were without power as of 11:30 p.m. Monday, according to Eversource.
Update 2:45 p.m.
As of 2:45 p.m., just 224 New Canaan customers remained without power, according to Eversource—about 2.6% of all customers in town.
Update 2:30 p.m.
As of 2:30 p.m. Monday, 7,875 of Eversource’s New Canaan customers—or 91.7% of the company’s customers here—were without power, according to the company. (Evesource officials said the elevated figure was due to a glitch with the company’s website.)
Original article
Nearly 800 New Canaan homes lost power Monday afternoon, causing some downtown businesses to close and rendering some traffic lights useless.
As of 1 p.m., 765 customers of New Canaan were without power, according to Eversource. The figure represents about 8% of the the utility company’s New Canaan customers.
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the outage.
Al Lara, a media relations specialist with Eversource, said the company received calls as lighting and other weather moved into New Canaan, “although likely we can’t say for sure that was the cause.”
“We have crews on the scene on Main Street (reported at 12:15pm) which account for 425 of the outages, and there appear to be at least two other more outages nearby (1:03pm on Elm Street and 1:18pm on Pheasant Drive),” Lara said in an email.
NewCanaanite.com will update this article as we get more information.
If the downtown outage turns out to be a repeat of the outage caused a few months ago by an overloaded transformer, then the rate-payers shouldn’t be charged for an inadequate replacement.