BERLIN – The town’s electric customers will experience a planned outage Sept. 17.
Municipal officials are advising the town’s electric customers that their power will be out Saturday, Sept. 17, from roughly 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. The outage will allow crews to make a necessary repair to Berlin’s substation.
“The repair requires the entire substation be out of service,” said Tim Lawrence, the town’s electric utility director.
Lawrence has been talking about the need for the substation repair for weeks. When it came time to set the actual date, he said a Saturday was decided on so that the outage wouldn’t impact the work week or church on Sunday. Because the work is expected to take four to six hours, residents should plan on power being out from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m.
“We did this [timeframe] once before when Delmarva Power upgraded their transmission line,” Lawrence said. “It just worked out really well.”