OCEC has scheduled an electric outage for Wednesday, May 25, 2022.

OCEC has scheduled an electric outage for Wednesday, May 25, 2022.

The outage will begin about 8 AM with restoration occurring by 5 PM. All members in Cloudcroft, Timberon, Pinon, Weed, Mayhill, Sacramento, James Canyon and Hwy. 244 coming out of Cloudcroft will be affected. Members should plan to be without electric service most of the day while crews change out some timbers on the transmission line and cut some hazard trees.

The decision to have an extended outage such as this is never taken lightly. Much discussion and planning goes into deciding on the best time for a planned outage.

Unfortunately, these repairs cannot be done while the line is energized. If these repairs are not completed in a controlled fashion, they will cause an unexpected outage in the future. And, finding the problem and making repairs at that time will take much longer.