Power restored after outage impacts 3K customers in Kitchener

A black flashlight turned on. (Steve Johnson/Pexels)

Thousands of people in Kitchener are without power due to an outage.

According to Enova Power’s outage map, 3,647 customers lost electricity on Monday afternoon. The effected neighbourhoods were Stanley Park, Centreville Chicopee, Rosemount and Pioneer Tower West.

The outage is impacting the CTV News Kitchener studios.

The estimated time of restoration was listed online as 6:30 p.m., but a specific cause for the outage has not yet been determined.

Although some users had their power restored within that time frame, just over 1,000 customers were still without power at 7:45 p.m. The updated estimated restoration time was listed as 8:30 p.m.