Thousands of Puget Sound Energy (PSE) customers woke up to dark houses this morning; the electricity went out at 7:40 a.m. for more than 12,000 residences and businesses in the Tumwater, Delphi, Grand Mound and Rochester areas.
The first 1,960 customers saw power return at about 12:40 p.m., PSE reported. More customers saw power return throughout the afternoon. At 5:30 p.m., only 39 customers were without electricity, according to the company’s Outage Map.
“Three substations were impacted in this outage,” according to PSE spokesperson Gerald Tracy, who told The JOLT that “all three were caused by the same piece of equipment failing.”
The company has not yet announced whether the cold weather affected the central piece of transmission equipment that failed.
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SecondOtter
What PSE is not admitting is that this is the FOURTH power outage we've had in the valley in the last two months. It's never due to the weather...yesterday it was calm and dry, if a bit cool. We didn't lose power when the heavy snow came down last month. There is some sort of connection in the Capitol Forest that is either old, or was installed improperly, and they can't blame trees falling on the lines because the DNR has cut them all down.
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