page_title: History of Hydro-Québec
section_title: Battling the elements
hierarchical_section_title: History of Hydro-Québec / The 1980s and 1990s / Battling the elements
caption_attribution_description: English: Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)
context_page_description: Hydro-Québec is a government-owned public utility established in 1944 by the Government of Quebec. The company is in charge of the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity across Quebec. Its head office is located in Montreal.
context_section_description: During the same period, Hydro-Québec had to deal with three major disruptions to its electric transmission system that were primarily caused by natural disasters. The incidents highlighted a major weakness of Hydro's system: the great distances between the generation facilities and the main markets of southern Quebec.
caption: A solar eruption caused a province-wide blackout, on March 13, 1989.
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