Apparently the risk of more short-term power outages isn’t over yet.
4 Rivers Electric has been advised its customers may have to contend with rolling outages through Wednesday morning. Early indications are those could be extended past 60 minutes if the situation warrants. Evergy is on standby for that possibility as of 6 pm.
4 Rivers General Manager Dennis Svanes says the possibility of more planned outages come as the Southwest Power Pool has entered into an Energy Emergency Level 2.
Svanes says the blackouts, while unfortunate, are necessary to keep the power grid stable.
If this develops, it would be the third round of rolling outages areawide after the Southwest Power Pool took the then-unprecedented step of going into an Energy Emergency Level 3 late Monday morning. Outages soon followed with around 52,000 Evergy customers impacted Monday. Outages resumed shortly before 7 am Tuesday and continued for at least two hours, affecting over 270,000 Evergy customers and close to 2,000 customers of 4 Rivers. The outages across Kansas and other states come as Oklahoma and Texas still struggle to get natural gas and other energy materials freed and distributed as abnormally cold air continues across the central third of the country.
Overnight low temperatures will approach zero with light snow expected areawide.
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