Strong winds across the Maritimes left several thousand N.B. Power customers without power on Saturday — and it could be days before all customers have their power restored.

Point Lepreau is one of NB Power’s workhorses, and the utility’s executives in the past have said that unscheduled outages at the plant costs on average $1 million a day to fire up other generators or ...

As frigid temperatures approach New Brunswick, the troubled Point Lepreau nuclear generating station missed its expected return to service date earlier this week.

Update: 11/17/2025 OG&E released the following statement: “Late Saturday night, approximately 20,000 customers in the Norman area experienced an outage due to an issue with equipment that had to be ...

One of New Brunswick's biggest electrical generators, the Point Lepreau nuclear plant, has suffered a breakdown just as a deep freeze grips a big part of the province.