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Wow - another power outage again tonight and this time ComEd can't use the old "there were bad storms" excuse.
Village Government, are you listening??? What is being done about this issue? We need pressure on ComEd to upgrade the old infrastructure in this area!!! SOOOO sick of this!
Your frustration is certainly warranted and shared. The Glen Ellyn Village Government IS listening and has, for at least the past two years, tried to partner with ComEd on solutions to these ongoing problems. You can learn more from the reports and presentations posted on the Glen Ellyn Website (glenellyn.org) but the bottom line is the problems persist and are unacceptable. The issue is being pursued. Any and all input/ideas/solutions are welcome.
Can you let us know about the cause of last night's power outage? I posted this another thread, but there's been 8 power outages (for us) since 1 July. Three of the 8 power outages (again, for us -- longfellow/lowell) -- were not during thunderstorms or severe weather. By my count, we've had more consecutive power outages in the past eight weeks than we've had in total for the last 5 years.
It's a significant issue -- especially when nearly 1/3 of the outages occur during normal weather. I'm inclined to believe that the infrastructure around and about our area -- GE, Wheaton, Lombard -- is deteriorating fairly rapdily and something is occurring again and again. Either ComEd won't or can't fix it. But it'd be nice to know what's going on.
Can you get the official cause from ComEd and post it?
Thank you for your question and for the outage info. The information is important in our conversations with ComEd. The official reason received today from ComEd was:
"The cause of the outage last night was an issue at the substation on Roosevelt Road. A device that isolated problems did not operate properly, causing additional circuits to go out of service."
