Power back on in Tahoe for all NV Energy customers
Updated Jan. 11 3:50pm
Power has been restored to all NV Energy customers on the South Shore.
Crews have identified the mechanical problem at the Round Hill substation and are working to fix it.
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Updated Jan. 11 2:30pm
Two-hundred NV Energy customers remain without power Friday afternoon. All are in the Lower Kingsbury Grade area of Stateline.
Customers are gradually being brought on line as crews switch their service to an operational substation.
The Round Hill substation problem has not be resolved, according to an NV Energy spokesman.
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Updated Jan. 11 11:45am
Power remains out for about 500 NV Energy customers on Lower Kingsbury Grade. The company does not have an estimated time when the lights will come back on.
The problem with the Round Hill substation has not been fixed as of this time. Power is being rerouted to service customers on the South Shore.
Karl Walquist with NV Energy told Lake Tahoe News it appears one of the lines has come off an insulator. Crews are out looking for the problem.
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South Shore customers of NV Energy have been without power since about 5:30 Friday morning when the circuits at the Round Hill substation went out.
There is no estimated time when the nearly 5,000 customers will have electricity again.
“They have not spotted any clear cause for the outage at the substation,” Karl Walquist, spokesman for NV Energy, told Lake Tahoe News at 8:55am.
Customers in Stateline, up Kingsbury Grade and to Cave Rock are affected. The casinos, though, are serviced by a different substation.
Traffic lights are also out. This means the intersections should be treated like a four-way stop.
The outage briefly affected about 2,000 customers of Liberty Energy in South Lake Tahoe. Their power was out for about 10 minutes.
Walquist said NV crews have been at the substation for hours trying to figure out why the circuits are out. He said repairmen are looking at possibly rerouting the affected customers to a different substation until the Round Hill problem is fixed.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
really this means another price hike
Uh…all four major Stateline casinos were still on generators when I left this morning.
I hope someone (law enforcement?) is doing welfare checks. I was able to get out of my house and get to a place with heat, cooking facilities and hot water, but in that time, my house got extremely cold. I am concerned about those who might have limited transportation, are elderly, disabled, etc.
I have a bit of a thing for corporations. I think they are irresponsible. They have done incredible damage to America’s infrastructure by cutting maintenance and getting rid of qualified (expensive) employees and replaced them with unqualified (cheap) employees. The unqualified employees cannot maintain the equipment nor are they allowed time or resources to actually fix anything. They put bandaids on everything and do their best with what they have.
This event is just like many other events, it took much longer to figure out and much longer to restore power. Did you get a rebate for your loss of power? Will you? My experience was with telephones, primarily. How is your phone service? Your internet? Not surprisingly, AT&T profits are just fine. When I started working in South Lake Tahoe for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company in the 1970’s, there were about 75 employees that took care of our customers. Now there are about 6 working for AT&T.
This power issue is the same thing. Examples of this philosophy are everywhere. It is killing America. Less service for more money. Lower paying jobs for those who DO the work, more money for those who DON’T do the work. Heck, the management doesn’t even understand the business that they are in. I know that in the telephone business, there are very few in any level of management that can even tell you how a phone works. How many casino executives can deal 21 or craps or audit their own books? It cannot be sustained.
Now cut to politics. How many politicians actually understand the economy? Rant concluded. Thank you for listening.
Michael B. Clark,
I agree. Large corporations are taking this country down. Their main concern is profit with no concern for their customers or employees… Greed rules!!!
I’ve seen this time and time again over the years. All the money floats to the top while the people actually doing the work get nothing. Wage freezes or reductions in hours, cutting pensions, reducing health insurance benefits.
etc. etc.
The worker with the most seniority suddenly finds himself out of work only to be replaced by another guy willing to work for half as much. Experience? Nope, don’t need that! Just sort of fumble along and hopefully everything works out alright.As long as the corporate bosses can line their pockets, everything is cool with them.
Don’t believe me? Just look around.
Take care, Old Long Skiis
As an Employee of the above mentioned HUGE Corporation (Non Union)
I am not going to defend all they do, but say that they treat me very well. I am expected to work very hard and constantly change, grow and learn new systems and concepts as the technology advances.
The West region is still working without a contract, this minimal threat of strike hanging over everyone’s head all the time. In addition the union that supports the dwindling number of union workers does not allow or encourage them to be retrained as their job becomes less and less relevant. There is a large demand for skills that (The Phone Company) needs to support the infrastructure in your area but they cannot leverage the good existing employee’s they already have.
Don’t even get me started on building the infrastructure to support the 3G and 4G services you demand.
You want it all but NO to Cell Towers in my hood.
I do not know what caused the power outage? But to insinuate that taking less than 12 hours to make it 100% right in winter conditions is? Setting the bar awfully high
I guess what I am try to say is REALLY?
Michael , not sure what your point was precisely, I can’t seem to figure out if you’re criticizing my commentary or agreeing with it.
Pacific Bell treated employees very well and provided excellent training, support and opportunity to their employees. AT&T (and SBC), in contrast, are exactly the opposite. In order to see the contrast, you would have to have experienced both environments. AT&T’s training for their employees is grossly inadequate and minimal considering the technology, they have replaced many of the support systems with software that doesn’t work correctly, their demands on their technicians to repair and maintain the facilities are largely unsupported by resources and they treat many of their employees as unwanted, unneeded and troublesome interlopers, IMHO. Everything is treated as “cookie-cutter” and differences in the environment that you work in are disregarded and ignored. I installed and maintained much of the equipment that supports your cellular services. Almost every day was an exercise in futility due to unqualified and unsupported employees.
Yes, I think that 12 hours is too long and I believe that better qualified and well-supported technicians could have done better. Please don’t even think of lecturing me about “winter conditions”. I spent almost 40 years working outside here in Lake Tahoe doing just that, I know a little about “winter conditions”. However, I do not know what these particular technicians were up against and therefore, must back off and say, “good work”.
The real point of my comment was to illustrate the change in philosophy of corporations today from a concerned and supportive company (whether it be a Phone Company, a Power Company or a Casino) to the current model of corporations to what I consider to be selfish and short-term profit-centered business people that do not take care of their employees, their customers or their product resulting in poor service to their customer base. I believe that this short-term thinking has destroyed many industries in America.
“The older I get, the better I was.” LOL. All the best in your career. Stay safe out there.