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Coldwater utility restores power after storm; transmission outage affected about 3,200 customers
Summary
Coldwater Board of Public Utilities staff said a transmission line failure during storms March 30 left roughly 3,200 customers — about 43% of the system — without power. Crews used onsite generators and coordination with transmission owner ITC to restore service by the morning of March 31.
Paul Schkubzak, utility director for the Coldwater Board of Public Utilities, told the Coldwater City Council on March 31 that severe storms the previous evening caused a transmission-line outage that left roughly 3,200 customers — about 43% of the utility’s customer base — without power.
Schkubzak said the outage began after storms moved through about 5:20 p.m. and was traced to a transmission line loss on Moores Road that removed one of three transmission feeds into the city. “We had roughly 3,200 customers out of power,” Schkubzak said, describing early troubleshooting and the involvement of ITC (Michigan electric transmission company) and local generation assets.
The utility…
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