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Alpine County residents can expect another outage late Thursday night after being part of Wednesday’s much larger outage that affected very nearly every NV Energy customer in Douglas County.
According to nvenergy.com by 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, all but 21 of the original 25,781 NV Energy customers had been restored.
Power was restored slowly starting around 10:45 a.m. and was back on in Carson Valley by about 12:30 p.m.
Power was a little slower for Lake Tahoe customers, but by 12:45 all but the last stragglers were back online. By 2:30 p.m. the outage was over.
The 7:19 a.m. outage prompted the Douglas County School District to cancel classes on Wednesday.
NV Energy reported issues with its infrastructure caused the outage. Reports were that work was mostly conducted at the Buckeye Substation.
Liberty Utilities has scheduled a planned power outage affecting portions of Alpine County as part of necessary infrastructure upgrades. The outage will take place from 11 p.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday to facilitate the replacement of utility poles.
Impacts to county operations may occur as a result of the outage.
A total of 243 customers in Alpine County will be impacted by this outage. Liberty Utilities has notified all affected customers via direct message on Feb. 28.
These upgrades are essential to maintaining a safe and reliable electrical system for our community. Residents and businesses in the impacted areas are encouraged to plan accordingly for the temporary loss of power.
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As of 12:30 p.m., the number of Douglas County power customers without electricity at nvenergy.com is down to 5,418, almost entirely at Lake Tahoe.
The time for restoration of power to those residents is undergoing re-evaluation, according to the site.
Power was restored to Carson Valley residents starting around 11 a.m. and continuing over the next 90 minutes.
Valley residents were told the cause of the outage was damage to power company equipment. Reports are that centered on the Buckeye Road substation north of Minden.
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The number of NV customers without power slowly dropped to just below 20,000 as of 11:15 a.m.
Residents in Johnson Lane and Genoa reported power was back on between 10:50 and 11 a.m.
Estimates for power restoration in Gardnerville were delayed until 11:30 a.m. for thousands of customers across Minden and Gardnerville.
That is an hour after the first estimates of 10:30 a.m. issued earlier on Wednesday morning.
Issues with the substation off Buckeye were cited by the Douglas County School District, which closed schools for the outage starting at 7:19 a.m.
Douglas County offices were open during the outage, according to spokesman Eric Cachinero.
“We’re pretty much business as usual today, minus some phone outages in some buildings,” he said. “No county office closures at this point to my knowledge.”
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Crews are working at the Buckeye Substation to restore electricity after an outage that affected very nearly every NV Energy customer in Douglas County.
Restoration is estimated at 10:45 a.m., according to power company spokeswoman Meghin Delaney.
The widespread outage affected 26,700 customers in 20 separate outages from the Pine Nuts to Lake Tahoe.
Douglas County schools closed on Wednesday due to the outage with students who were already at the high school released.
The outage set off a water flow alarm at Bently Nevada, resulting in an evacuation around 9:15 a.m. There was no fire and the alarm was reset.
Tahoe Douglas responded to an elevator rescue at 7:23 a.m. for people trapped in the Lake Tower at Harvey’s.
Station 25’s generator failed, Tahoe Douglas firefighters reported at 9:30 p.m.