Dive Summary:
- A high-wind storm Monday morning left as many as 270,000 customers in ComEd’s northern Illinois territory without power.
- Having mobilized significant resources, ComEd expects to have power restored to all by Wednesday night, except for a few spots severely impacted in the south suburbs of Chicago.
- The utility has deployed 500 utility and contractor crews to restore electricity as quickly as possible. More than 216,000 customers have been restored as of Tuesday and about 54,000 remain blacked-out.
From the article:
“ComEd works with municipal officials to prioritize outage restoration to customers that ensure public safety, such as police and fire, then hospitals and other critical customers such as pumping stations. Next, ComEd restores feeders, which allows the company to return power to the largest numbers of customers at one time, followed by smaller service restorations and individual outages.”