Sunday night update for Cleco outages - KATC Lafayette News
Sunday night update for Cleco outages - KATC Lafayette News |
| Sunday night update for Cleco outages - KATC Lafayette News Posted: 30 Aug 2020 05:22 PM PDT  SUNDAY NIGHT UPDATE: As of 9 p.m. Sunday, Cleco crews have restored power to over 80,000 of the 140,000 customers affected by Hurricane Laura after it made landfall in southwest Louisiana Thursday. Customer outages by parish as of 9 p.m. Acadia – 16 Allen – 5,917 Avoyelles – 1,472 Beauregard – 5,122 Calcasieu – 2,461 Catahoula - 18 Desoto – 476 Evangeline – 513 Grant – 6,862 Iberia – 5 Jefferson Davis - 39 Lasalle - 15 Natchitoches - 646 Rapides – 26,646 Red River – 27 Sabine – 3,846 St. Landry – 28 St. Mary - 9 Vernon – 5,685 For the most up-to-date information, follow the company on Facebook @ClecoPower and visit Cleco's website at cleco.com. EVENING UPDATE: As of 6 p.m. today, Cleco and contractor crews have restored power to over 78,000 of the 140,000 customers affected by Hurricane Laura after it made landfall in southwest Louisiana Thursday. Cleco offers the tips below to help keep customers safe before and after power is restored. "We also want to remind customers that their electricity may not be turned back on due to structural damage or damage to electrical equipment on their side of the meter," said James Lass, director of distribution operations and emergency management. "Cleco will reconnect the electricity after a licensed electrician has made the necessary repairs and the proper authorization is received." What to do before and after power is restored: · Check your property for damage. When walking through storm damage, wear long pants, a long-sleeved shirt and sturdy shoes. · Make sure the water is safe to drink. Call local authorities or listen to news outlets for boil advisories. · Keep refrigerators and freezers closed. · Unplug appliances and electronic devices when the power is out (air conditioning units, refrigerators, computers, laptops, televisions, etc.) · Operate portable generators in a well-ventilated area, never run a generator indoors, and plug appliances directly into generators with grounded extension cords that can handle the load. Don't plug a generator cord directly into a wall outlet. A generator can back feed electricity through your electric wiring to the entire Cleco circuit. This can cause injury or even death to a worker attempting to repair that circuit and anyone else who comes in contact with power lines. · If water is rising near your home or business, turn off electricity at the main breaker. Evacuate and do not return until waters have completely receded. Wait until the water recedes and have an electrician check the building's wiring before using the electricity. For the most up-to-date information, follow the company on Facebook @ClecoPower and visit Cleco's website at cleco.com. Customer outages by parish as of 6 p.m. AFTERNOON UPDATE: As of 2 p.m. today, Cleco and contractor crews have restored power to over 76,000 of the 140,000 customers affected by Hurricane Laura after it made landfall in southwest Louisiana Thursday. "Our numbers continue to improve, but we still have a long way to go," said James Lass, director of distribution operations and emergency management. "This is the second largest number of resources we've brought in for a storm, second only after Hurricane Katrina. To date, we have over 3,000 personnel dedicated to restoration efforts with numbers increasing each day." Below are restoration updates on some of the impacted parishes. Cleco will report updates on other areas as they become available. For the most up-to-date information, follow the company on Facebook @ClecoPower and visit Cleco's website at cleco.com. Grant and Rapides parishes · Cleco has restored power to 12,500 customers across these two parishes. · Over the next three to seven days, Cleco plans to reduce the number of customers without electricity in these two parishes by five to 10 percent daily. · The region experienced catastrophic damage, including damage to every distribution and transmission substation that serve these two parishes. Additionally, the hurricane-force winds and downed trees caused significant damage to Cleco's poles, lines and transformers resulting in outages to all customers in this area which is estimated to be 45,000. · Many roads and areas that crews needed to access were blocked by trees which slowed down restoration efforts, making it challenging to replace damaged equipment. · Cleco currently has 900 workers in these parishes making repairs and restoring power, and 120 more workers will be arriving tomorrow. DeSoto, Natchitoches, Red River and Sabine parishes · Power restored to all customers who can take power in Mansfield, Grand Cane, Keachie Gloster, Village of Converse, Many, Zwolle, Nobel and the City of Coushatta. · Crews are working inside the town of Campti and expect roughly half of the customers will be restored today and the remaining customers tomorrow. · Crews are patrolling Clarence today and expect to begin making repairs tomorrow. · Crews are working and expect service to customers in Pleasant Hill will be on late today or tomorrow. · Crews are working in Oak Grove and expect to have some customers' power on tonight and the remainder on by tomorrow. · Crews patrolling and working in Toledo Bend Corridor (from Stanley Community to Toledo Bend). Damage is extensive. Customers should expect extended outages. · Crews will begin restoration efforts early this week in the Stanley Community. Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Vernon parishes · DeRidder, Leesville, Rosepine, Dequincy and Oakdale are in the hardest hit parishes. These towns are heavily damaged. Restoration is underway. While crews will be working daylight until dark, customers should expect extended outages. · Crews expect to have critical infrastructure back on in Oakdale, Oberlin and Kinder by end of day tomorrow. For residential customers, Cleco is still assessing damage. Customers should expect extended outages. Acadia, Avoyelles, Evangeline and St. Landry parishes · Power restored to all customers in Basile, Opelousas and Mamou. · Crews continue to work in Ville Platte, Crowley and Eunice areas. Some customers in these areas will have power restored today and others will remain without power overnight. Customer outages by parish as of 2 p.m. Acadia – 26 Allen – 5,917 Avoyelles – 1,612 Beauregard – 5,122 Calcasieu – 2,461 Catahoula - 18 Desoto – 489 Evangeline – 858 Grant – 7,146 Iberia – 9 Jefferson Davis - 39 Lasalle - 15 Natchitoches - 630 Rapides – 29,532 Red River – 28 Sabine – 4,027 St. Landry – 88 St. Mary - 10 Vernon – 5,685 MORNING UPDATE: As of 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Cleco crews continue to make progress, restoring power to more than 50 percent of the 140,000 customers affected by Hurricane Laura after it made landfall in southwest Louisiana Thursday. As of 8 a.m., power has been restored to more than 74,000 customers. Below are outages by parish as of 8 a.m. on Sunday, August 30: Acadia – 33 Allen – 5,917 Avoyelles – 1,915 Beauregard – 5,122 Calcasieu – 2,461 Catahoula - 18 Desoto – 580 Evangeline – 1,171 Grant – 7,110 Iberia – 7 Jefferson Davis - 39 Lasalle - 15 Natchitoches - 646 Rapides – 30,311 Red River – 33 Sabine – 3,977 St. Landry – 104 St. Mary - 11 Vernon – 5,685 For additional information on Cleco's storm restoration efforts, follow the company on Facebook @ClecoPower or visit Cleco's Storm Center page at cleco.com/storm-center.  |
| Hurricane Laura Restoration Update - 8/30/20 @ 12:15 pm - Marketscreener.com Posted: 28 Aug 2020 12:00 AM PDT Insights > Hurricane Laura Restoration Update - 8/30/20 @ 12:15 p.m.Hurricane Laura Restoration Update - 8/30/20 @ 12:15 p.m.By: Corporate Editorial Team08/30/2020This morning, a nationwide internet outage impacted our ability to update our online View Outages map. We apologize for this inconvenience and expect the map to begin updating later today.Our restoration workers have restored nearly 60% of the electrical power outages caused by Hurricane Laura. Our workforce will continue its safe, quick work until everyone's power is restored.Outage and restoration information at 9 a.m. included:Entergy's distribution and transmission systems have suffered extensive damage. Key transmission lines are out of service that will affect service restoration until they return.Arkansas UpdateMost customers who can take power should be restored by late tonight in hard-hit El Dorado, Magnolia and Warren.Louisiana UpdateWe are taking steps to supply power to some of our Lake Charles customers by restoring a generating plant in Sulphur and creating a power 'island' of customers who will be temporarily disconnected from the main power grid.In Louisiana, damage assessments are nearly complete. The remaining assessments will be more difficult due to extensive damage, especially in the hard-hit Lake Charles area.Lafayette-area customers should be restored by late today, with the Jennings area restored by late tomorrow. Restoration workers in these two areas will relocate to boost the number of restoration workers in Lake Charles.We use peak outages to measure our restoration progress. In severe weather like Hurricane Laura, power can be restored multiple times as the rolling effects of the storm move across the state. This is especially true for Entergy Louisiana's Laura restoration, where 273,929 individual outages had been restored as of 7 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 30.Texas UpdateOur electric system is still in a very fragile state and we are taking steps to improve system conditions, but the damage to our transmission system is significant.Entergy Texas estimates that all customers who can take power in the Beaumont, Port Arthur and Silsbee surrounding areas are expected to be restored by Sunday, August 30, Groves by Monday, August 31 and the Orange area is estimated by Friday, September 4. However, given the extent of damage these times may change as our crews assess the damage and make progress restoring customers.TransmissionThe damage from Hurricane Laura's historic intensity caused catastrophic damage to the Entergy system across Louisiana and Texas. The eye wall, which brings the most damaging winds and intense rainfall, passed directly over Lake Charles, Louisiana, causing wide-spread damage to that area and our system.Power must be restored to transmission lines and substations in order to energize the distribution lines that serve businesses and homes. We must patrol and inspect each component of the high voltage facilities before they can be re-energized.The transmission system is the backbone of the electric grid and helps Entergy move power from the power plant to the lines serving customers' neighborhoods. These large lines are like the interstate system. Without these lines in service, it makes it difficult to move power across the system to customers in the affected areas.Our damage assessments indicate catastrophic damage to our electrical infrastructure. We expect the recovery to be as difficult and challenging as we have ever faced in the past. Customers should expect extended power outages lasting for weeks.Based on current assessment reports, damage to Entergy's transmission system post Laura has already surpassed that of Hurricane Gustav that hit southeast Louisiana in 2008.There are seven transmission line corridors feeding into the Lake Charles area, five of which belong to Entergy. All seven have been catastrophically damaged, and while not all assessments have been completed, it is some of the most severe damage the company has experienced.The structure that supports a 500-kV line weighs roughly 40,000 pounds. One 18-wheeler can transport about 50-100 distribution poles, but just one of these towers requires three trucks for transport.As more complete damage information is collected, we will continue to develop our plans to stabilize the backbone of our transmission system and build paths from available generation to begin restoring customers.Our first and most critical priority is to get the first transmission source into Lake Charles re-energized to begin the process of starting available generation units in the area. We have several options that we are currently evaluating based on feasibility and time to execute.For customers to begin receiving power in the Lake Charles area, the transmission lines must first be repaired. Those that received major damage may need to be reconstructed in part. Once the transmission lines are flowing electricity into the city, into the substations then through the distribution lines, homes and businesses will be able to except power.ResourcesOur crews, contractors and mutual-assistance partners are prepared to work long hours restoring service to customers as safely and as quickly as possible.We have assembled a restoration force of 23,200 workers including our own employees, contractors and mutual assistance crews from other companies. This workforce is the largest restoration effort we have ever mobilized.Restoration workers from 29 states are restoring service for our customers. Donor states include Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin and West Virginia.Customer InformationSome customers may see extended power outages. Given the intensity of this storm and the additional need for our crews to follow COVID-19 precautionary measures, hardest hit areas may experience outages for weeks. In addition, restoration may be hampered by flooding, blocked access or other obstacles.Customers who have a new advanced meter installed can check to see if their power is restored by logging into myEntergy. View 'My Usage' on the dashboard. Select 'hourly view' to see their most recent usage which is updated every four to five hours.Customers with property damage may require special action to speed their restoration:If your property has any water damage, please turn off the electricity at either the main fuse box or circuit breaker. Don't step in water to get to the fuse box or circuit breaker.Call a licensed electrician for advice when necessary. A licensed electrician may need to inspect your property's electric wiring before Entergy can restore power to a home or business which has water damage from rain or flood waters.For customers without property damage:Property owners without hurricane damage should be cautious.Look for electrical system damage once power is restored. If you see sparks, broken or frayed wires, or the smell of hot insulation is noticeable, turn off the electricity at either the main fuse box or circuit breaker.Call a licensed electrician for advice when necessary. Don't step in water to get to the fuse box or circuit breaker.Entergy cannot restore power to a location with a damaged meter base, conduit or weather head (the metal pipe extending upward from the structure with electrical cables inside). They must be repaired by a qualified electrician before Entergy can restore power.Due to the volume of outages and post-storm assessment status, the red/green lines on our outage maps may show discrepancies. When this happens, we switch to an 'area view' and provide detailed restoration updates in the alert banner at the top of the map, updated twice daily.Here's how we approach things at this stage to restore your power safely and quickly when conditions are safe:Repairs begin with major lines to the substations, then to the lines and equipment serving neighborhoods, businesses and homes.Service lines to individual homes and businesses will be restored last because fewer customers are involved, and in the case of fewer outages spread over larger areas, it often takes more time to get power back on for them.Significant flooding and other accessibility challenges due to the storm will affect our ability to reach some areas of our territory and could delay restoration in those communities.When restoration starts, keep in mind that if you don't see us working near you, we may be working on another part of the electrical system that you can't see but must be repaired to get power to you.Responding to a major storm and COVID-19 could affect our response:Along with standard storm preparations, Entergy employees are navigating the COVID-19 pandemic by taking additional steps. These include traveling separately when possible, adjusting crew staging locations and increasing the use of drones.Due to the additional measures crews must take, restoration may take longer, especially where there are widespread outages. Additionally, crews will continue to practice social distancing and we ask that customers do the same. For their safety and yours, please stay away from work zones.Stay Informed We know you want information about your outage. Given the intensity of this storm and the additional need for our crews to follow COVID-19 precautionary measures, hardest hit areas may experience outages for weeks. In addition, restoration may be hampered by flooding, blocked access or other obstacles.  |
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