Parts of South Lake Tahoe without power
Updated Jan. 19 4:55pm: Randy Kelly with Liberty Energy and a longtime NV Energy employee in South Lake Tahoe said a tree went across a power line, knocking out power for a few hours Tuesday night in the Tahoe Island area. The company has no plans at this time to inspect trees/limbs that may be waiting to fall.
By Kathryn Reed
Power went out in parts of the Tahoe Island area of South Lake Tahoe just before 7pm Wednesday night.
Liberty Energy, the company now responsible for keeping the lights on on the California side of the Lake Tahoe Basin, did not know why the outage occurred or how many customers are affected.
Spokesman Mark Johnson told Lake Tahoe News at 7:54pm the company is looking into the issue.
A bit of irony is Liberty Energy hosted a lunch meeting Wednesday with head honchos Bob Dodds and David Pasieka going on and on about customer service and their ability to handle outages.
Liberty, a subsidiary of CalPECO, took over Nevada Energy’s 45,000 California customers at 12:01am New Year’s Day.
Liberty is buying power from NV Energy. The latter decided it wanted to divest itself of California customers so it could focus on one state. Dodds, at the meeting, said NV Energy would be handling substations in California for Liberty.
An hour after the power goes out they are investigating it! Well they better get the bugs worked out before this happens during a big storm.
Last nights power outage was about the 3r or 4th time we have been out of power in the Tahoe island park area lately
Hope the luncheon was not interrupted by the pesky power failure.
Great start Liberty Energy…NOT!
I believe that the cause was a downed tree limb on a power line. It’s the second time that has happened on my street, and the third time it happened since the bad rain/snow storms we had over the holidays.
Wondering if the power company will be going into neighborhoods to “limb” trees?? Or is it the responsibility of the homeowner??