Minnesota Power ready to respond to approaching winter storm

DULUTH — Minnesota Energy and Superior Water, Mild and Energy are working to mitigate potential energy outages and guarantee ample staffing to reply as safely and as rapidly as potential to any outages attributable to snow and gusty winds predicted for this week in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.

A winter storm warning is in impact for Wednesday via Saturday. The largest menace for energy outages is predicted to return from timber nonetheless loaded down with snow from final week’s moist, heavy snowfall. Excessive winds, coupled with low temperatures this week that can make the timber extra brittle, may result in extra timber and limbs contacting energy traces. Minnesota Energy has been working since final week’s storm to pre-emptively take away timber that threaten energy traces and will trigger an outage.

Regardless of the preventative tree removals, energy outages are nonetheless potential throughout this storm. Journey and dealing circumstances are anticipated to be hazardous and troublesome at instances and will gradual any response throughout what is predicted to be bitterly chilly and windy climate.

Minnesota Energy is a part of the Midwest Mutual Help Community and can work to safe further assets from neighboring utilities relying on the magnitude of outages. You will need to observe that extreme climate is predicted for a lot of the nation, and assets are
restricted as utilities throughout the nation are responding to, making ready for or assessing weather-related outages.

The security of crews and the protection of shoppers are a precedence when responding to energy outages. Persons are urged to keep away from downed energy traces and never try and take away tree branches that will have fallen on traces. All the time assume that any wires, together with downed wires, are energized and may trigger damage or loss of life.

For data on the right way to put together and what to do throughout cold-weather energy outages, go to the Minnesota Energy winter climate security webpage at

www.mnpower.com/OutageCenter/WinterWeatherSafety

or the Superior Water, Mild and Energy winter climate security web page at

www.swlp.com/OutageSafety/WinterWeatherSafety

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