POWER OUTAGES SUNDAY

The recent power outage Sunday (11/11) has created a lot of calls to the Township office to find out why there was an outage on a sunny, 70 degree day.


The official word I got from Consumers was:

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The Cascade sub saw two outages Sunday.

11:49 AM - CASCADE SUB - The Cascade Circuit locked out due to failure of an underground Primary line just outside the substation. 1434 customers were interrupted: 535 customers were restored after 327 minutes (5.5 hours). 899 customers remained off.
7:10 PM - CASCADE SUB - The Cascade Circuit locked out again during the isolation process. 535 customers were interrupted for 28 minutes. 899 customers were interrupted for 578 minutes. The underground fault was isolated.
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The township will continue to work with Consumers to push for system improvements to minimize outages such as these. 

 

Consumers recently put a new sub-station on line (Spaulding, south of Cascade Road) to reduce the number and length of outages in the area.  They also do a lot of tree-trimming to keep outages from happening.  Consumers is also working on a plan to improve the reliability of the system in the area affected by Sunday' outage.