UniSource Energy Services says a Feb 1. outage across Santa Cruz County customers was prolonged because a failed power line was hard to reach.
David Wichner UniSource Energy Services says a power outage that affected nearly 20,000 customers in Santa Cruz County on Feb. 1 lasted much of that day for many customers because a failed power line that caused the blackout was difficult to reach.The outage began around 4 a.m., affecting those in Amado all the way to Nogales and causing local schools, government offices and many businesses to shut down for most of the day, as some customers didn’t have power restored until around 5:30 p.m.
UniSource Energy Services, a sister company to Tucson Electric Power Co., provides power to more than 19,000 customers in Santa Cruz County, as well as more than 80,000 customers in Mohave County. UES had restored service to about 6,000 customers by 1 p.m. and by 2 p.m., 7,000 remained without power, Barrios said.
In 2014, a saboteur broke into the Valencia Generating Station and planted a makeshift bomb that exploded next to a valve assembly on a 50,000-gallon diesel fuel tank but the tank did not detonate. The FBI investigated but no arrests were reported. The systemwide average time UES customers were offline during power outages in 2021 was about 48 minutes, up from 43 minutes in 2020, and down from a three-year average of 50 minutes from 2019 through 2021.
Contact senior reporter David Wichner at [email protected] or 520-573-4181. On Twitter: @dwichner. On Facebook: Facebook.com/DailyStarBiz
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