SaskPower planning $7M upgrade to grid in Regina’s downtown

SaskPower is investing more than $7 million to keep the lights on in Regina’s downtown.

The Crown corporation announced Thursday it plans to upgrade the area’s electrical system by replacing underground cables, switches and other electrical equipment in the summer and fall of 2021.

“This work will help bolster the reliability of the electrical grid and help pave the way for the future throughout the city of Regina, especially to make sure our business customers and residents living downtown have the power they need,” Shawn Schmidt, SaskPower’s vice-president of distribution and customer services, said in a media release.

“This work will also help reduce the number of outages for several areas of Regina and will eventually help our crews locate and resolve outages faster in the future through smart technology.”

SaskPower is hoping to do the work without causing too much of an impact on residents and businesses, but there may be planned power outages and traffic disruptions at times.

Details about planned outages can be found here and information about road closures can be found here.

SaskPower says it has invested $45 million since the Regina Downtown Improvement program was launched in 2012.