Tag: Power Outages

Storms Knockout Power Throughout State

A late-winter storm has knocked out electricity to about 80,000 customers in West Virginia.

FirstEnergy reported about 41,000 customers without power at midday Thursday. Appalachian Power has about 39,000 outages. Both utilities say many roads remain impassible and are hampering power-restoration efforts. They are bringing in crews from out-of-state affiliates.

Warming stations and shelters have been opened for residents without power in Logan, Marion, Monongalia and Raleigh counties. In Cabell County, where about 11,000 customers are without power, officials have asked Appalachian Power to pinpoint power outage locations in order to determine where to open emergency shelters if needed.

Other hard-hit areas include more than 6,000 outages each in Putnam and Wood counties, 5,000 in Kanawha County and 4,000 in Harrison, Marion and Wayne counties.

Mon Power, Potomac Edison Work to Restore Electricity

Mon Power, a FirstEnergy Corporation utility, continues to try to restore power to customers in West Virginia following the summer storm that downed trees and wires in the region beginning last night.

Mon Power spokesmen, Todd Meyers says about 71,000 West Virginia customers lost power during the storm. Meyers says as of 3:00 this afternoon only 24,000 are still without power.

The company says customers lost power as the summer storm downed trees and wires. Meyers says restoring service to all Mon Power customers is expected to take several days. He expects 95% should have power by Friday night.

Mon Power serves much of north central West Virginia, and of those areas, the hardest hit included Parkersburg, Clarksburg-Bridgeport, and Lewis and Preston counties.

Scott Surgeoner, a spokesman for Potomac Edison, which is a sister company to Mon Power covering Berkeley, Morgan and Jefferson counties says just over four thousand in those counties are still without power, and he does not expect for those counties to be fully restored until Saturday.

Surgeoner says Hedgesville, Martinsburg and Berkeley Springs were hit the hardest by the storm.

Utlity Plans Aim to Reduce Outages During Storms

West Virginia utility regulators have approved utility vegetation-management plans aimed at reducing power failures during destructive storms.

The plans announced Monday are for Monongahela Power Co. and Potomac Edison Co. The plans are part of a Public Service Commission of West Virginia directive in January 2013 requiring electric companies operating in the state to outline vegetation trimming programs for distribution and transmission lines.
 
The PSC says the plans are intended to increase electric service reliability during storms such as the derecho in 2010 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
 
Those weather events left hundreds of thousands of West Virginians without power, resulting in millions of dollars in damage and spoiled food, not to mention customer inconvenience.
 
Mon Power and Potomac Edison serve 523,000 customers in 27 West Virginia counties.
 

Storm Knocks Out Power to 17,000 West Virginians

A winter storm has knocked out electricity for about 17,000 Appalachian Power customers in West Virginia.
 
     The utility’s website shows most of the outages are in southern West Virginia. As of 8:25 a.m. Monday, there are 7,900 outages in Mercer County and more than 3,500 in Raleigh County.
 
     Smaller outages have occurred in Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier, McDowell, Summers and Wyoming counties.
 
     Mon Power reports scattered outages in northern West Virginia.

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