Kentucky Power Restoration Update
Weather
High winds swept through Kentucky Power Company’s northeast service territory yesterday morning and afternoon causing extensive damage, numerous downed trees and power outages for 12,215 customers at the peak of the storm.
Summary
The majority of customers currently impacted by outages caused by the storm are in Boyd (2,972), Carter (456), Greenup (593) and Lawrence (429) counties. Crews are working to replace numerous broken poles, cross arms, transformers and downed spans of wire in each county.
Resources
There are more than 300 line personnel and contractors assisting with restoration, including crews from Kentucky Power’s southern territory and out-of-state resources.
Restoration
Crews have successfully restored more than 63 percent of customers with approximately 4,640 customers remaining without power. There are 267 individual outage cases left to be worked, with 259 of those having fewer than 100 customers on the outage. While the customer count has decreased sharply throughout the day, there is still significant work to be done to restore hundreds of small pockets of customers.
Restoration for all areas will be mostly complete by late Friday. Estimated restoration times can be found atwww.KentuckyPower.com/Outages.
More information
Outage estimate and information can be found on our app, www.KentuckyPower.com/App, or online atwww.KentuckyPower.com/Outages. Customers may call our Customer Operations Center anytime at 800-572-1113. Important safety information can be found on our website, www.KentuckyPower.com/Safety.
Next update: Thursday, April 4, 10 a.m.
*Photos attached are all taken by Kentucky Power employees in the Ashland/Boyd County area. You have permission to use these photos. A set of 2 photos were taken on 16th Street in Ashland, where it appears broken trees caused significant damage to electrical equipment.
