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Storms Knock out Power to 6,000 CVEC Members
TALLADEGA, Ala. - Storms rolling through East Central Alabama Sunday afternoon
knocked out power to three Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative substations in
north and east Talladega County. Early estimates place the number of consumers
affected at more than 6,000.
At approximately 4:30 p.m. Alabama Power transmission lines feeding Coosa Valley
Electric's Lincoln, Eureka and Stockdale substations went down.
"Together these substations serve more than 6,000 residents, and when Alabama
Power's transmission lines went down, all of those members would've been without
power," said Frank Kujawski, CVEC general manager.
Power to all substations was restored by 7 p.m.
"The extent of damage to Coosa Valley Electric's system could not be determined
until the substations were re-energized," Kujawski said.
On-call crews reported that damage to the cooperative's distribution system
was mainly isolated but major to the areas supplied by the Eureka substation.
Some outlying areas served by the Lincoln and Stockdale substations received
minor damage that delayed power restoration efforts. Power was restored to nearly
all affected members shortly around midnight Sunday evening.
While Coosa Valley Electric does not buy its power from Alabama Power, it transmits
power across Alabama Power's transmission system through a practice called "wheeling."
Coosa Valley Electric buys its power from Alabama Electric Cooperative in Andalusia.
Coosa Valley Electric, which serves more than 15,000 customers in Talladega,
St. Clair, Shelby, Clay, Etowah and Calhoun counties, is a Touchstone Energy®
cooperative. Nationwide, some 1,000 cooperatives provide power to rural America,
and 570 of those operate under the Touchstone Energy umbrella.
For more information, contact:
Jon Cullimore 362-4180 or 1-800-273-7210, ext. 225, Fax: 256-761-2615, Cell: 256-299-0551
Barbara Edmondson 1-800-273-7210, ext. 224
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