PEIA power outage that left nearly 7,000 Islanders in western P.E.I. without power Saturday morning has been resolved.Outage cause was a motor vehicle accidentRyan McKellop · CBC News · Posted: Aug 23, 2025 9:45 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours agoA power outage that left nearly 7,000 Islanders in western P.E.I. without power Saturday morning has been resolved.Outages ranged from the North Cape to south of Inverness. Communities south and east of Ellerslie were unaffected.In a Facebook post, Maritime Electric said the cause of the outage was a motor vehicle accident.CBC News has contacted the RCMP for details about the crash, but did not receive an immediate response.
Power outage in western P.E.I. restored
