PARK TWP., MI (WHTC) – A planned Tuesday afternoon power outage on Holland’s North Side was altered due to “proactive work.”
In an original press release by Consumers Energy shortly before 2 PM, equipment damage on a utility pole adjacent to an electrical substation near the corner of Lakewood Boulevard and Lakeshore Drive had originally meant that over 27 hundred customers in a area bounded by Lake Macatawa, 160th Avenue, New Holland Street and Lakeshore Drive in Park Township were to be without electricity from 2 PM to 4 PM. However, in a later statement about 90 minutes later from the Jackson-based utiity, “Proactive work by crews to transfer electric load to other circuits has reduced the number of affected customers … to 962 … the new northern boundary for the affected customers is Quincy Street; the other approximate boundaries remain the same. Because of this and other pre-outage tasks, the power outage is now scheduled to begin at approximately 4 PM and last for two hours.”
The repairs were apparently completed before nightfall without incident.
