Liberty Utilities’ Brockway substation located in the Kings Beach area was switched back into service this week.

The 50-plus year old substation had been temporarily shut down for repairs due to damage sustained during storms earlier this year. A new transformer was installed to replace equipment that had caught on fire during extreme weather experienced in the Lake Tahoe region in January and February.

While the substation was being repaired, Liberty Utilities’ relied on service taken from NV Energy’s source in the Incline Village area to serve its Kings Beach customers. NV Energy had a major equipment failure of that circuit last week which affected Liberty Utilities’ customers with an extended outage.

These repairs should make outages less frequent and affect fewer customers when an outage does occur.