NOTN- Power has been restored to Juneau after a citywide outage this afternoon that left much of the city in the dark for roughly an hour.
Alaska Electric Light & Power (AEL&P) reported just that the outage appeared to be impacting all areas of town, with crews immediately responding. AEL&P later confirmed that the disruption occurred on its transmission system.
“We have identified that the outage occurred on our transmission system and are currently flying and patrolling the line,” AEL&P said in an update on social media. “In the meantime we are restoring power with backup generation while we continue to investigate the cause.”
AEL&P announced later in a social media post that power had been restored across Juneau.
AEL&P added that short-term use of backup generation does not affect customers’ bills and that it has been years since the company needed to rely on extended backup power.
AEL&P said it would release further information as the investigation continues.
