Temporary emergency grid protection outages in effect, SWEPCO says

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) — There are more than 30,000 SWEPCO customers who do have power.

On Saturday, April 26, around 4:30 p.m., SWEPCO said they notified by the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) of a grid protection event that may cause disruption within the SWEPCO service area. Bossier Parish will see outages until SPP directs SWEPCO to restore power.

SWPECO released the following statement regarding the outage:

Temporary emergency grid protection outages are now in effect across parts of our service territory in Bossier Parish.

The SWEPCO team works with the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) to manage the flow of electricity in our area. SPP required us to take emergency outages in specific areas on the power lines that provide our customers with service. This action was taken to prevent conditions that could cause widespread damage to power lines and equipment that could take days or longer to fix. We are working and coordinating with SPP and will provide additional updates as soon as possible.

The outages are primarily affecting customers in Bossier Parish, Louisiana. Please know we always strive to provide our customers with advance notice of an outage whenever possible, and unfortunately that was not possible in this emergency situation. In this instance, our grid operators were instructed to take immediate action, which did not give us time to inform you before the outage occurred.

Go here to check the outage map.

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