“Sometimes that happens when you have a more complicated repair. “We do apologize for the fact that the estimated restoration time kept getting pushed out,” Eskelsen said. When repairs failed, a new regulator was ordered. “Once they determined that it was the voltage regulator that was bad,” he said of the second work order, “they had to make a decision, ‘okay, do we go back and repair this thing or replace it?’”Įskelsen said crews first attempted to repair the failed regulator because a new one had to come from Salt Lake City. While Rocky Mountain Power dispatched repair crews immediately, Eskelsen said it took time to diagnose the problems. The second, longer lasting outage was reported at 11:41 p.m.
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on Friday, with full power being restored at 10:40 p.m. Lights in the impacted communities originally dimmed around 7:40 p.m. Rocky Mountain Power Spokesman Dave Eskelsen said two separate-but likely related-work orders were involved, the first being a problem with a fuse in the Nibley substation and the second being a failed voltage regulator.
A large-scale power outage in Wellsville, Mendon and College Ward left more than 2,800 Rocky Mountain Power customers without electricity for nearly 24 hours over the weekend.
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