City of Kasson requests residents reduce electric use during repair Friday afternoon

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – The city of Kasson posted on its website Friday that an urgent repair is happening Friday afternoon that could risk residents losing power.

Kasson Public Utilities reported its transmission provider will be shutting off an adjacent 161,000 volt powerline to repair the line that failed Thursday night.

The repair reportedly must happen to prevent more outages.

Kasson stated that because this situation does not involve KPU facilities or equipment, it does not have control over the situation.

The city is requesting residents reduce their electric use between noon and 3 p.m. Friday during the repair.

The full statement from Kasson’s website is below:

“KPU has been notified that buy [sic] our Transmission provider that they need to shut off an adjacent 161,000 volt powerline to safely repair the line that failed last night. This repair must be done ASAP before the load increases to prevent more outages. For the duration of the repair, there is the possibility that Kasson and adjacent cities will lose power if the 69,000 volt feeder line gets overloaded. As these are not KPU facilities or equipment, we have no control over this issue. Please reduce electric use between 12pm and 3pm as much as possible. KPU staff is in communication with the repair crews and sincerely appreciates your efforts to reduce our load to prevent another total power loss event. Thank you.”

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