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August 3, 2006

'Lost substation' leaves about 20,000 without power

About 20,000 households and businesses are without power in West Bay and South County this afternoon, according to National Grid spokesman David Graves.

At about 12:30 p.m., the electric company "lost a substation" in Warwick that feeds large quantities of electricity to South County. Graves did not know if the failure was related to last night's thunderstorms or today's high demand on the system.

The failure occurred just after power had been restored to the last of the utility's customers who lost it last night after a violent thunderstorm passed through much of the state.

Crews are on the scene working to identify and fix today's problem, he said.

Affected customers include:

-- 6,000 in Coventry
-- 3,700 in North Kingstown
-- 3,000 in East Greenwich
-- 2,000 in Exeter
-- 2,000 in West Greenwich
-- 2,000 in West Warwick
-- 700 in Warwick
-- 420 in Richmond
-- 180 in Westerly
-- 138 in South Kingstown

Posted by Steve Peoples  at 1:22 PM | Permalink

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