Summerside's sports dome is going to be closed for the foreseeable future to let technicians assess its safety, city deputy CAO J.P. Desrosiers said Wednesday. 

The $5 million dome over a huge indoor turf field opened three years ago for the Canada Winter Games. Warm air is pumped continuously inside the dome to keep it inflated. 

But the dome, along with other large users in the P.E.I. municipality, has been using backup power from generators for over a week.

That's because Maritime Electric is a…