Western Coops Face Unpredictable Outages Due to Wild Weather
Posted on Apr 9, 2012 in Environmental, Grid & Infrastructure, Reliability | Comments Off on Western Coops Face Unpredictable Outages Due to Wild Weather
Several Western states have faced unpredictable weather this spring, which has caused ongoing challenges for electric coops attempting to keep power flowing to customers. In New Mexico, Springer Electric Cooperative, Inc., has been working to replace at least 150 poles and restore service to about one-third of the coop’s more than 3,000 consumer-members after snow and high winds battered its service territory on April 2. Many coops have experienced damages due to windstorms, such as Montana-based Flathead Electric Cooperative, which faced a loss of power to thousands of members after a March 28 windstorm. Click here for more.
