Extreme storm cause MEC outages over weekend
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ – Throughout the weekend, Friday, August 18 – Saturday, August 19 twenty-six separate outages in Mohave Electric Cooperative’s (MEC’S) service area affected over 4,800 MEC members. The majority of the outages were due to lightning striking lines, transformers, and other electrical equipment. MEC crews worked tirelessly throughout the night restoring power to all members by Saturday, August 19 at 1:57 p.m. The largest outage occurred at 5:49 p.m. on Friday in the Western service area for 1,949 members when winds from the extreme storm tore down a line, causing the circuit to lock open at the Big Bend Substation….
