BLUEBONNET RESTORES POWER AFTER MORNING OUTAGES

  

Update @ 10 a.m.: Power has been fully restored as of 9:30 a.m.

Update @ 8:45 a.m.: According to Bluebonnet Public Affairs Manager Will Holford, power was restored to an additional 270 members by rerouting power through unaffected power lines. Roughly 432 members still remain without power, but Holford says their power is expected to be back by 9:15 a.m.

Update @ 7 a.m.: Bluebonnet Public Affairs Manager Will Holford says power was restored to approximately 1,759 members at 6:50 a.m.  Crews are working as quickly and safely as possible to repair a downed power line that caused the outage and restore power to the remaining 700 members.  Power is expected to be restored to the remaining members by 8:30 a.m.

Original Story @ 6:30 a.m.: Thousands of Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative members west of Brenham are without power this (Tuesday) morning.

According to Bluebonnet’s online outage map, the outages are concentrated around FM 389, Old Mill Creek Road and Windy Acres Road.

As of 6:30 a.m., approximately 2,500 members are affected.

Bluebonnet Public Affairs Manager Will Holford says the outage originates in a substation that services the area north and west of Brenham.  Multiple crews are headed to the substation to determine the cause of the outage and restore power as quickly and safely as possible.

According to Holford, control center operators and crews are working in the meantime to reroute power through unaffected power lines in order to restore power to as many members as possible.

Holford says an estimated time of restoration will be provided once the cause of the outage is determined.