Thursday, October 8, 2009

Outage tonight will impact more than 10,000 members

Cullman EC, the Cullman Power Board and TVA will be working at the North Cullman substation tonight, and starting at 11 p.m., an outage lasting 20 to 30 minutes will take place.

The outage is to fix a "hot spot" inside the substation. We regularly use infrared cameras to look for hot spots in substations. If equipment overheats, it can cause a major power outage — usually at a time that is most inconvenient for everyone. During a check earlier this week, a hot spot was discovered, and the decision was made to fix is ASAP.

The outage will effect North Cullman as well as all of the substations that it feeds along a 46 kv line. Among those are Trade, Trimble, Jones Chapel, Holy Pond, Berlin to name a few.

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