Planned Power Outage Scheduled For Hitchcock And Bonilla Areas

Northwestern Energy customers in the Hitchcock and Bonilla areas will expirence a short term power outage Wednesday afternoon. Spokeman Tom Glanzer says outage will help Northwestern bring new equipment online…

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The portable substation is valuable unit for Northwestern…

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Glanzer says the upgrade has been planned for some time…

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The outage is scheduled to start at 3 PM this (Wednesday) afternoon. and last around three and a half hours. When work is completed in about a week, a second similiar outage will be needed to bring the new substation on-line.