Kentucky Power FINAL Windstorm Update
Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Summary:
Remnants of Hurricane Helene swept through Kentucky Power’s service area on Friday, September 27, causing extensive damage to electrical facilities and leaving 44,000 customers without power at the peak of the event. More than 1,000 Kentucky Power personnel, business partners and external resources worked to restore power.
Restoration:
There are approximately 375 customers currently without power. In total, crews replaced 143 poles, 774 spans of wire (nearly 57 miles), 96 cross arms and 54 transformers.
A Note of Thanks
Kentucky Power wishes to thank all our customers for their patience throughout the Hurricane Helene storm restoration and for their support of our crews.
For More Information:
- Visit www.KentuckyPower.com.
- Customers can get specific information about the outages affecting their accounts via text message and/or email by subscribing to Kentucky Power outage alerts. To sign up, go to www.KentuckyPower.com/Alerts.
- Customers can call our Customer Operations Center anytime at 1-800-572-1113.
- Customers can follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/KentuckyPower and on X,www.Twitter.com/KentuckyPower, for helpful information and tips.
This is the final update for this storm.
