There are hundreds of linemen working in Butler County Monday to restore power to West Penn Power customers.
“We’re fully engaged today,” West Penn’s Todd Meyers said in an interview late Monday morning. “We had about 500 linemen working and support crews working throughout the weekend in Butler, and we’ve gotten more now. You should be seeing about 700 people out there working on this storm, and that is a huge number. And it’s warranted because there’s a huge amount of widespread damage.”
Meyers says it’s hard to explain the type of damage that this storm did to the power grid.
Of the 31 substations that cover more than 100,000 customers in the Bulter County area, 25 of those were impacted and some of them were completely de-energized because the line that feeds them was not operational, according to Meyers.
“That’s a large number,” he said. “And then, of the 75 big distribution lines that feed our customers- many of which are tens of miles long- nearly 60 of those were impacted.”
Maleski urges customers to be patient if they can, and assures them crews are working around-the-clock.
“You can see that it’s really a widespread problem. Our entire system is interconnected, and we’ve had so much infrastructure damage throughout the entire area,” he said. “We have more linemen working today in Butler Co. then West Penn Power as a company employs as a total.”
More than 6,000 West Penn Power customers in Butler County were still without power as of Monday. Initially, more than 36,000 were in the dark.
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