Power has been restored to thousands of homes and businesses in the uptown Saint John area.
Saint John Energy first tweeted about the outage affecting roughly 4,000 customers shortly after 3:30 p.m. Wednesday
The utility said power was restored by 5:12 p.m., nearly 20 minutes earlier than expected.
Spokesperson Jessica DeLong says the outage occurred after a loss of supply from NB Power to the Union Street substation.
With files from Ben Burnett.
