Residents in parts of New Sudbury and Capreol may have some short term power outages this week.

That’s because Greater Sudbury Hydro has teamed up with Energy Ottawa to test underground distribution cables to determine whether they need to be replaced.

The team from Ottawa has been brought in as the technology is new and not yet widely available and when complete Sudbury Hydro will have traceable health index of the sables tested.

The tests will run all week with outages lasting no more than 5-10 minutes for the area east of Montrose and a small area of Capreol.

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