Outage Reports
Stay informed of the facts and details regarding major power outages affecting our members. We generally post outage reports within 72 hours of the outage. Reports are available throughout the duration of each month.
Listed below are this month’s major outages lasting five minutes or more and affecting at least 500 members.
June
Coon Rapids (6/4/25)
At 8:50 a.m. Wednesday June 4, 2025, Spring Lake Park Substation lost power, leaving 6,537 members in Coon Rapids and Blaine without power. A squirrel made contact with the circuit 2 recloser inside the substation. The operators began isolating the substation and restoring four of the seven affected circuits from neighboring substations via SCADA. By 9:08 a.m., 3,283 affected members were restored. By 10:26 a.m., our crews finished restoring the remaining three circuits, restoring the remaining 3,254 affected members.
May
Ham Lake (5/29/25)
At 3:32 p.m. Thursday May 29, 2025, Ham Lake Substation Circuit 5 recloser locked out, leaving 716 members in Ham Lake without power. Our crews rode out the line and found a tree had likely fallen and brushed our line near 153rd Ave NE & Davenport St NE. At 5:05 p.m., power was restored via SCADA to all affected members.
Coon Rapids (5/27/25)
At 10:08 a.m. Tuesday May 27, 2025, Parkwood Substation Circuit 4 recloser operated a single time causing a momentary outage on this circuit and revealing a smaller sustained outage to 332 members in the Coon Rapids area. Our crews found a burnt off red phase jumper near Eagle St NW & Egret Blvd NW which feeds the underground portion of Parkwood Circuit 3. Due to the jumper location, our crews isolated the underground portion at 11:54 a.m., outaging an additional 680 members. At 12:03 p.m., our crews back fed the underground from a neighboring circuit, restoring all affected members.
Zimmerman (5/27/25)
At 11:07 a.m. Tuesday May 27, 2025, a line recloser on Baldwin Substation Circuit 21 locked out, leaving 630 members in the Zimmerman area without power. A member cut down a tree into our overhead line near Lake Diann Rd. Our crew isolated the damage as much as possible and restored 503 of the affected members by 12:15 p.m. At 1:50 p.m., our crew finished making repairs to the damaged line and the remaining 127 affected members were restored.
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