Ice Causes Mayhem in Many States
Posted on Dec 10, 2013 in Grid & Infrastructure, Reliability | Comments Off on Ice Causes Mayhem in Many States
Last week’s winter storm and resulting ice and snow caused mayhem for many electric coops around the country. During the worst of the storm, nearly 30,000 coop customers in the Midwest were out of power, and eight Virginia coops reported about 43,000 meters of power lines out of commission. To prepare for more hard winter weather, statewide associations have requested mutual aid crews from the Southeast to send personnel and equipment north before ice storms begin. Read more here.
