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Rocky Mountain Power explains intermittent outages in Ogden, cites wildfire‑safety settings
Summary
Rocky Mountain Power told the Ogden City Council it has applied enhanced safety settings on circuits near the mountains to reduce wildfire risk; company representatives said those settings can lengthen outages in affected areas while vegetation work and reclosers reduce the impacted customer base.
Rocky Mountain Power representatives told the Ogden City Council on Tuesday that recent intermittent power outages in parts of Ogden reflect intentionally heightened safety settings on circuits the company has identified as at elevated wildfire risk.
Kirk Nigro, regional business manager for Rocky Mountain Power, said the company has implemented “enhanced safety settings” on lines serving areas near the mountains. He said the settings are more sensitive to faults so that equipment will not reclose automatically when a fault could indicate a risk of ignition. “We are putting safety of the communities and their customers first…
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