UPDATE: 250 Alliant customers temporarily without power
JANESVILLE—Power was restored to more than 250 Alliant Energy customers Friday morning after an equipment failure at the Harmony Town Hall Road and Highway 14 substation, said Steve Schultz, communications program manager.
The outage occurred at 9:02 a.m., Schultz said, and power was restored 30 minutes later.
Alliant crews were on scene, at the substation, in Harmony Township, shortly after the outage was reported, he said.
At about the same time, a flash and bang was reported at Alliant’s substation on Delavan Drive across the street from the General Motors plant.
No customers were affected since that circuit only feeds the closed GM plant, Schultz said.
Schultz believes the outages were not related because of the distance—about 5 miles—between the two substations.
“But I wouldn’t rule anything out,” he said.
Aug 10, 2009 at 10:24 a.m.
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Oh not concerned, Just wondered how someone would think it was funny. But with a name like yours I guss that should have answered my question that you dont really know funny.
Aug 8, 2009 at 10:53 a.m.
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The plant is not "closed", it is on "Stand-by"! Gee keep the facts straight!
Aug 7, 2009 at 10:05 p.m.
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BartSimpson, you're my hero ;-)
Aug 7, 2009 at 4:55 p.m.
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Bart is your comment here that you make on every other story supposed to be funny?
Aug 7, 2009 at 12:31 p.m.
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I work just south of there on 14 and we have had power all morning.
Aug 7, 2009 at 11:27 a.m.
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Anyone know what area of town is effected? I work in Madison and live in Janesville and am curious.
Aug 7, 2009 at 10:37 a.m.
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I remember this one time, at band camp. . .
Aug 7, 2009 at 10:11 a.m.
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I remember once a long time ago when the power went out at work. A couple hours later it was fixed and the workers told us the outage was caused by a hawk's dinner. It caught a snake and got too close to the line while flying. Apparently the snake's body was hanging down and crossed a couple wires.
Aug 7, 2009 at 9:56 a.m.
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Yeah, when the poop hit the fan out here (Harmony) I was wondering what the hay-was up? Their are a lot of hatchlings and baby varmits just heading out into the unknown, my guess is that it is something of that nature/ after all in a look back on these events, its always some animal that got zapped. A word to the wise? If your climbing near a transformer/ keep your tail in tight.
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