LODI, Calif. — There were temporary rotating outages in the city of Lodi after they lost one of their power substations Wednesday evening.
According to the city of Lodi's outage map, more than 23,000 customers were impacted by the outages. By 10:30 p.m., power had been restored. In a news release, the city said around 8,700 customers were without power at the peak of curtailment.
"At 10:30pm, PG&E informed us that capacity on their remaining 2 incoming sub-transmission lines was sufficient to pick up the entirety of the City of Lodi system loads. We are continuing to work through the night to get the 3rd sub-transmission line back in service as soon as possible," the city of Lodi said on Facebook.
The city had to turn off power to different areas in an effort mitigate the impacts. City spokesperson Mary Campbell said no one was expected be without power for more than an hour.
Officials said there was an unexpected failure of system protection equipment at Lodi's Industrial Substation, which caused the loss of one of their three main energy supply feeds.
According to the city, the remaining lines couldn't meet the current and forecasted demands, and PG&E asked them to turn off 35 megawatts of power in their service territory.
Emergency notifications were supposed to have been sent out around 4:20 p.m. to all residents, but officials said it overloaded the system and that notification failed to reach most Lodi residents.
View the outage map from Lodi below or click HERE.
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