The widespread power outage that plagued Swift Current Thursday morning affected about 3,000 customers, according to the City.
Residential and business customers lost power around 10 a.m. spanning from Battleford Trail, through the downtown core, across to Kinetic Park.
Darryl Tunall, the City's director of Light & Power, said a malfunctioning switching device caused the outage at the Battleford substation.
"It didn't catch fire, but it blew up," he said. "We do have some repair to do; we have to come up with what we need for a device and how we're going to get in there and do it. The lights are on, but the problem hasn't been rectified."
The majority of customers had power back on within 30 minutes, while the remainder were restored around 10:50 a.m.
Tunall was happy with his crew's quick work, ensuring the outage was short-lived.
"We have a pretty good team, and they sprang into action pretty fast," he said. "We have a distribution clerk in Light & Power, and she got overwhelmed with the calls, so the infrastructure and operations admin assistant helped, so there was teamwork there. Then the power line guys got working together to determine where the outage was and how to get stuff switched back on."