North Arkansas Electric Cooperative (NAEC) has been notified its regional transmission system operator, Midcontinent Independent System Operator, could likely mandate the cooperative begin rolling temporary outages. The earliest NAEC could be required to conduct outages would be 5 p.m. Wednesday, and the first outage would be expected to last one hour.
According to the cooperative, the first members in its territory that would be affected are served by the Three Brothers substation (Oakland and Promise Land areas) and the Salem 2 substation (Salem, West Sturkie, Glencoe, Union and Wheeling areas). If the emergency condition lasts throughout the night, NAEC may be required to take temporary outages in other areas of the system.
NAEC reports it has no control over this process and will receive little notice, if more outages are necessary. The co-op will attempt to notify affected members through its Facebook and Twitter accounts, naeci.com and local media, if more temporary outages are necessary.
Midcontinent Independent System Operator is an independent organization that operates the bulk power transmission system across 15 states from Louisiana to Minnesota and Canadian province of Manitoba.
For more information, visit naeci.com or call 870-895-3221.
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