(June 12, 2020 7:15 PM) Consumers Energy reports there are less than 71,000 remaining homes and businesses without power after a series of severe thunderstorms that swept across Michigan this week.
“We understand how frustrating it is for our customers who lost power because of the high winds that devastated our state,” said Guy Packard, Consumers Energy vice president for electric operations. “However, our crews are out working 24 hours a day clearing out trees, conducting damage assessments and restoring power for every customer safely.”
Packard highlighted the storm and the company’s restoration response in a live call with media this morning. Link to the news conference can be found here.
As of 4:00 p.m. Friday, about 71,000 customers remained without service. The majority of the remaining customers will be restored by the end of Friday. Work in areas with heavier damage, including customers in Branch, Calhoun, Kent, Jackson and Saginaw counties, will continue into Saturday.
Since Tuesday afternoon, more than 270,000 customers have been affected by the severe weather which brought winds exceeding 70 mph, toppling trees along with nearly 5,000 electric wires, and breaking more than 300 poles. Nearly 2,000 Consumers Energy employees, in-state contractors and crews from Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Alabama are involved in the restoration effort. They include lineworkers and damage assessors to call center representatives and forestry crews.
Customers can report an outage, check the status of an outage and get useful tips what to do after a storm by visiting www.ConsumersEnergy.com/OutageCenter. Customers can also sign up to get outage alerts and restoration times sent to a phone, email or text message, Text ‘REG’ to 232273 or visit www.ConsumersEnergy.com/alerts.
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