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Committee hears grid-feasibility idea to reduce Town of Wayne outages
Summary
Member Chris presented a grid-feasibility proposal: Wayne's radial power line leaves the town vulnerable in storms; he proposed exploring a circuit tie and grid recloser with CMP and noted potential FEMA/DOE resilience funding.
Chris described a local electricity resilience proposal after reviewing outage performance over many storms: Wayne is fed by a radial three-phase line that terminates near Route 219, so faults along Route 133 typically cut power to most customers. He proposed exploring a circuit tie to a separate three-phase source near Route 106 and installing a grid recloser, and suggested contacting Central Maine Power (CMP) and exploring resilience grant funds.
"We have about 980 customers, and we lose, like, 965 to 975 on just about every single storm," Chris told the committee, illustrating the scale of outages and why a circuit tie could improve reliability. Committee members recommended sanity-checking the technical cases with CMP and said they would share Chris' feasibility write-up with staff and utility contacts for review.
