Electric power was restored to Alliant Energu customers in the Woodward area Saturday about 9:30 p.m. after workers repaired regulating devices in a step-down transformer facility in Woodward.
Longtime Woodward resident John Bustad said the site on Main Street across from the High Trestle Trail trailhead previously had trouble.
“This has happened there before maybe four times in the last 15 years,” Bustad said, “where the main transformer blew up across the street from the old Standard Oil station.”
Another Facebook comment on ThePerryNews.com story said the outage was the “third year this happens over there on very hot days.”
One Woodward resident commented on Facebook, “Alliant needs to give Woodward customers a restaurant gift card.”
Some Facebook users were patient and sympathetic. One encouraged energy conservation.
“Not sure it can really be helped in weather like this,” the reader said. “Turn your ACs up a little bit so they aren’t running so hard, then they won’t tax the power stations so much. In the meantime, thank you to those who are out in this miserable heat and humidity, trying to keep everyone else cool.”
Tom Sailer, senior manager of customer operations for Alliant Energy, said a customer base the size of Woodward’s draws about 2.5 to 3 megawatts during the peak season of summer.
