United Power News

Applications Available for 2010 Washington, D.C. Youth Tour

11/09/09

Three high school students will be selected to represent United Power on a free trip to Washington, D.C. sponsored by the cooperative each summer. Applications are now available on United Power's website.

The annual trip, scheduled for June 11-17, 2010, gathers about 1,500 high school students from towns and small cities in rural America to spend a week in the nation's capital as part of the National Rural Electric Youth Tour.

Student must be a high school junior or senior in the Fall of 2010 to qualify. For more information, or to download the application, click here.

The application deadline is February 1, 2010.

Outage Affects Customers Adjacent to Larkridge

10/31/09

About 390 customers just east of the Larkridge Shopping Center at Hwy. 7 and I-25 , and south of WCR 2, were affected by an outage caused by failure of protection equipment on the system. The outage began about approximately 10:43 a.m., and customers service was distributed for about 2.5 hours. Crews were on site immediately and began switching service when a cause was not identified quickly. Line crews remain on site to continue making repairs.

Customers are reminded to call our outage line at 303-637-1350 and follow the automated commands. This allows us to quickly assess the areas affected, and allows us to follow up to assure that service has been restored.

Power Outage Affects Brighton Saturday, October 24th

10/26/09

Approximately 1,670 United Power customers served by the Bromley Substation experienced an outage on Saturday, October 24^th. The area affected included Bromley Lane from Tower Road, west to South 4^th Avenue, and north to Southern Street, and along the south side of Bromley Lane – including the King Soopers area. The outage which began at 8:15 p.m., with 50% of those affected back on my 8:24 p.m. Power to the remaining customers was restored by 8:35 p.m. The apparent cause was a “fused elbow” feed service to the substation transformer. United Power crews are on site today to begin completing final repairs. No additional issues are expected during the repairs. Thanks to all our customers who utilized our outage notification system during this outage. Remember, it is the best way for us to determine the full extent of any system outage, and to assure that your power is restored as quickly as possible.