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PSO outlines causes of repeated Jenks outages; says substation fixes, smart switches and transformer upgrades underway
Summary
PSO told the Jenks City Council that a mix of causes — squirrels, equipment failures and Mylar balloons — contributed to outages since November, and described fixes including substation protection reprogramming, smart switches and transformer replacements expected to complete in April.
Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) officials told the Jenks City Council on Jan. 21 that multiple causes underlay a series of power outages in the city over the past months and that company engineers have implemented fixes and planned infrastructure upgrades to improve reliability.
Rodrigo Rojas, PSO external affairs manager for the Tulsa region, introduced the company team and said PSO wanted to address Melody Lane and downtown outages that residents raised at prior meetings. Dwayne Apple, PSO vice president of distribution services, acknowledged the outages and said the utility “own[s] that” the company had not met its usual reliability standards for the city since early November.
Apple and other PSO staff described a mix of causes: wildlife such as squirrels, equipment…
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