Power Outage and a Possible Shortage
July 20, 2004 on 8:43 pm | In Main |We lost power in the middle of the night last night. We woke up to the sound of the UPS’s beeping. It turns out the a transformer caught fire at a nearby substation. We were actually lucky, since we only lost power for an hour. Some people were without power for most of the morning. Power went out temporarily at work, which caused a failure of the network switch I am connected to. I did not have network access until after lunch, which limited what I could accomplish this morning.
This is the second transformer fire this month. The loss of transmission capacity combined with the planned show down of the Palo Verde nuclear power plant means we are likely to get rolling blackouts, particularly if we get hot temperatures. Losing power for just a few minutes with the sun shining is enough to cause the house to really heat up. We are keeping our fingers crossed so this won’t happen.
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