About 100 Alliant Energy customers will experience a 10-minute power outage Thursday afternoon beginning about 2 p.m., according to an Alliant spokesperson.
“This is a relatively small and short outage,” said Justin Foss of the Alliant corporate communications office. “We called all the customers that will be impacted by this earlier this week.”
Most of the electricity users in the outage area live south of Iowa Highway 141 on Sugar Creek Circle, Southgate Drive and Seventh and Tenth streets, Foss said. A few households on Grove Street and Fifth Street, north of Iowa Highway 141, will also experience the brief outage.
He said the brief blackout is related to the two-year Alliant project, now nearly done, of transferring Perry’s electricity service system to the new substation west of the city.
“We’re taking this particular group of customers and transferring them from the old substation to new substation,” Foss said. “We’re just making the last transfers now. We’ve been doing work in that area for a long time and here as we approach the storm season with the spring, customers will see the improved, more robust system.”
Foss said the new system will bring more protection again animal-created outages and more lightning protection and will be “more robust and reliable” for energy consumers.
