Prince George power outages and rates
Live outages around Prince George, what electricity costs on each residential plan, and a quick estimate of your bill.
Source: BC Hydro outage map data, updated . Report a data problem
Outages near Prince George
Report an outage or downed line: call 1-800-224-9376 (1-800-BCHYDRO) or dial *49376 on a cell phone.
Source: BC Hydro, updated . Report a data problem
Outage map
Tap a marker for details. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Source: BC Hydro; OpenStreetMap, updated . Report a data problem
Outages this week
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Hourly average of customers without power, recorded from BC Hydro's outage map every few minutes.
Source: BC Hydro outage map data, recorded by PG Pulse. Report a data problem
Province-wide electricity demand
Load on BC Hydro's whole system, in megawatts: all of BC Hydro's service area, not just Prince George. Daily average and the day's peak hour.
Busiest hour since October 1, 2025: 10,823 MW on January 26, 2026. Hourly load on BC Hydro’s system in megawatts, summed here to daily averages and peaks. BC Hydro posts the data about once a month, so the latest weeks are not included.
Source: BC Hydro, Balancing Authority Load (hourly control area load), historical transmission data, as of September 30, 2026. Report a data problem
Residential rates
Every residential customer pays a daily basic charge plus an energy charge per kilowatt-hour. You choose the tiered or flat plan and can add time-of-day pricing to either.
Tiered rate
| Tier 1 energy | 11.87¢ / kWh |
| Tier 2 energy | 14.08¢ / kWh |
| Basic charge | 23.44¢ / day |
Tier 1 covers the first 22.1918 kWh per day of the billing period: about 675 kWh a month or 1,350 kWh every two months.
Flat rate
| Energy | 12.70¢ / kWh |
| Basic charge | 25.00¢ / day |
One price for every kilowatt-hour. BC Hydro suggests it can suit higher-use homes, such as those with electric heat.
Time-of-day option
| On-peak, 4 to 9 p.m. | +5¢ / kWh |
| Overnight, 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. | −5¢ / kWh |
| Off-peak, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 9 to 11 p.m. | No change |
Applied on top of either plan. Useful if you can shift EV charging or laundry overnight.
Source: BC Hydro, Residential rates (tiered rate, flat rate and time-of-day pricing pages), as of October 12, 2026. Report a data problem
Bill estimator
Source: BC Hydro, Residential rates (tiered rate, flat rate and time-of-day pricing pages), as of October 12, 2026. Report a data problem
Where Prince George's power comes from
Prince George is on BC Hydro's integrated provincial grid. According to BC Hydro, more than 90% of its generation is hydroelectric, and over 80% of its installed capacity sits in the Peace and Columbia river basins. The Peace River dams northeast of the city are the closest major sources, including the new John Horgan Dam and Generating Station (formerly Site C), BC Hydro's third dam on the Peace, rated at 1,100 to 1,230 MW.
Locally, the City's Downtown Renewable Energy System heats about a dozen downtown buildings, including the Conference and Civic Centre, City Hall, the Canfor Leisure Pool and the Bob Harkins library branch, with hot water from a Lakeland Mills system that burns sawmill residues.
Source: BC Hydro generation system; City of Prince George, as of September 2026. Report a data problem
Sources
- BC Hydro outage map
- BC Hydro residential rates
- BC Hydro balancing authority load
- BC Hydro generation system
- City of Prince George, Downtown Renewable Energy System
How these figures are gathered
Live figures are fetched from these providers and cached briefly on our server. Provisional real-time data can be revised by the source. When a source is down we say so rather than guess.
- BC Hydro outage map
- Live outages; we show those within 150 km of downtown
- BC Hydro residential rates
- Tiered, flat and time-of-day pricing
- BC Hydro balancing authority load
- Hourly province-wide load, posted about monthly
