Dive Summary:

• Entergy New Orleans claims that energy was being transmitted into the Superdome even as the lights were failing during last night's Super Bowl XLVII.
• The utility says the outage was primarily a result of poor maintenance on equipment that is supposed to be handled by the stadium's staff.
• While auxiliary power prevented the playing field from going dark, part of the stadium was lit only by emergency service lights.

From the article:

Philip Allison, a spokesman for Entergy New Orleans, says power was flowing into the stadium before the lights failed.

"All of our distribution and transmission feeds going into the Superdome were operating as expected," Allison said. ...