Anyone who sees a downed power line should immediately report it to the cooperative and try to keep others away from the downed line. How Power is Restored When the lights go out, Blue Ridge Electric s main objective is to safely and quickly restore power to the greatest number of members in the shortest amount of time. During an outage, crews first give attention to lines that serve emergency centers. Thousands of people could be affected by damage here, so transmission lines are repaired first. Substations transmission lines feed power to substations, which are checked next during a major outage.
Blue Ridge has numerous substations serving several thousand members from each point.
These are checked next if no problem is found at either the transmission line or the substation serving an area. Tap lines carry power from the feeders to the utility poles or underground transformers outside houses or other buildings. Individual service sometimes, damage occurs on the service line between a house and the transformer on the nearby pole. This is why one home may not have power while a neighboring home s power is on.