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Published Tuesday, December 08, 2009 in Local
Brownout affects Newnan Utilities customers
The Newnan Times-Herald
An issue at the V.C. Street electrical substation led to a short blackout/brownout for Newnan Utilities customers Monday afternoon.
All three phases of the three-phase system blinked, said Ed Strong, director of engineering for Newnan Utilities. One of those phases "actually dropped out for two or three minutes," he said.
That meant that some customers completely lost power. Others just experienced blinks, and some partially lost power.
Strong said the issue was with Georgia Power.
He said he believes Georgia Power was attempting to switch the substation from being served by Plant Yates to being served from Thomaston. That transition was when the problem occurred.
"They saw the problem and then they switched it back to the other feed," Strong said.
The outage affected all customers served through the V.C. Street substation, located on the west side of downtown Newnan, Strong said.
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how can we find out the specific cause for this outage, or if it was caused by human or electronic error.
Posted by homer tron at 12:41 PM
This helps to explain the brownout which also affected EMC customers down here in Meriwether County. We are able to pick up Three Rivers EMC's radio transmissions on our scanner afterwards and heard reports that the brownout was pretty widespread, affecting customers from Woodbury to Luthersville.
It was REALLY bizarre. We've been through a lot of power outages before, but nothing like
this! Suddenly everything goes "brown" and we hear a loud, eerie "HUUUMMMMMM...!"
Hope this doesn't happen again anytime soon!
Posted by Brown and Out in Meriwether at 10:33 AM
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This is getting ridiculous. It's not just a one time problem. I'm having outages at a MINIMUM of 1 per day. Sometimes there are 3 or 4 per day in my neighborhood. What is going on? Newnan utilities used to be good, now they just plain bothersome!
Posted by Nunya at 1:29 PM