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Update: About 17,000 homes lost power in SE Sask on Wednesday

SaskPower says a large transmission outage was the source of the power failure Wednesday in southeast Saskatchewan.
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According to SaskPower, there were 306 line and pole contacts with farm machinery in 2020. So far this year there have been 196 incidents, including one fatality.

SOUTHEAST SASKATCHEWAN - UPDATE: SaskPower says power has been restored in southeast Saskatchewan after a large outage Wednesday morning.

The lights went out shortly after 8:30 a.m., and power was restored to most of the region about an hour later. 

In an e-mail to the Estevan Mercury, SaskPower said about 17,000 customers were without power. The source of the issue, according to SaskPower, was a "large transmission outage".

The outage area stretched from south of Weyburn to the Canada-U.S border, and east of Weyburn to the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border

According to SaskPower's X page, there were still a couple of outages in the southeast. One affected Steelman, Frobisher, Alameda and surrounding areas. The other impacted Colgate, Ralph, Goodwater and surrounding areas.