He explained that these repairs need to happen and were scheduled during a time when the weather is typically cooler. "We have put off a lot of maintenance because of the hot weather this year," Eskelsen said. Over the next 10 days, nearly 600 homes between Herriman, Cottonwood Heights, Draper, and South Jordan will experience outages lasting anywhere from four to six hours. But some projects require pulling houses off the grid. Rocky Mountain Power spokesperson David Eskelsen said they try to be sensitive to the need to de-energize customers in order to perform work. He's worried about how this will impact people with health issues. ![]() "It just didn't make much good sense."īaker isn't just concerned about his household. "They scheduled this planned service or repair … during the hottest part of the day in a record-breaking heat wave," Baker pointed out. He's concerned about how hot it will get inside their home at time that the forecast is calling for upper 90s to triple digit temperatures. Baker explained that he and his wife Monica work from home often during those evening hours, and at that time their kids are home from school and working on homework. The family will not have electricity or air conditioning from 4 p.m. The reasoning listed was equipment repairs. Chris Baker said he received an email from Rocky Mountain Power this week, announcing the planned power interruption. The Baker family lives in an outage area in Daybreak. While some of the outages are small and affecting fewer than a dozen customers, one outage will take out power to nearly 550 households for several hours. Rocky Mountain Power said it has planned five outages in Salt Lake County over the next 10 days, lasting longer than three hours. ![]() SOUTH JORDAN - Rocky Mountain Power customers are expressing concern and wondering why the power company is planning hours-long outages during the middle of a heatwave.
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