As of 8 a.m., there are approximately 690 customers without power. Cold weather continues today as temperatures are expected to remain at or below freezing until Saturday. Saturday temperatures will be warming into the 30s and 40s for highs, but lows will return to below freezing Saturday night. We have all active resources engaged in restoration efforts. We are responding to outages quickly and as safely as possible when they occur.  Our team will continue to practice social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and this may slow restoration work.

Extreme cold winter weather continues today, and temperatures are expected to remain at or below freezing until Saturday. As of 5 p.m., there are approximately 295 customers without power. We have resources engaged in restoration efforts. We are responding to outages quickly and as safely as possible when they occur.  Our team will continue to practice social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and this may slow restoration work.

Thank you for your patience and your voluntary conservation of power. We continue working with reliability coordinator Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) to monitor, in real time, the balance of the power generation supply compared to the extremely high customer demand we are experiencing. Last night, residential, commercial and industrial were all asked to decrease their electrical usage from 5 to 10 p.m., as directed by from MISO, and as a result of your participation, the system was successfully able to avoid mandatory outages.

February 17, 2021                      Wednesday, 8:30 PM

Mandatory rolling outages took place last night about two hours and affected approximately 60,000 customers across the state, who experienced temporary outages ranging between 11 to 45 minutes.