Power restored to thousands in Lansing
LANSING - Power was restored shortly before 11:30 a.m. to more than 13,000 Lansing Board of Water & Light customers in Lansing.
The 90-minute outage impacted a total of 13,753 customers, said Steve Serkaian, a spokesman for the utility. Serkaian said the utility initially reported outages at 30,000 because that's how many customers are served by the Eckert substation where the outage originated.
Officials later discovered only a portion of the people served by the Eckert substation were impacted.
The outage was caused when a portion of the substation tripped offline during required testing, the utility said in a press release.
In the future, all testing for the substation will be done on nights and weekends "to minimize any inconvenience if outages result from the testing," officials said.
The BWL outage map was down for a time during the outage. Serkaian said the outage map should be replaced next year.
The Eckert plant substation, which caused at least two widespread power outages last year, is expected to be replaced by a substation planned in REO town.
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