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Louisiana bears brunt of Hurricane Laura as utility COVID-19 protocols threaten restoration time
Cat 4 Hurricane Laura really slammed the south-central US. Hundreds of thousands out of service. Here’s an important quote: “Given the intensity of this storm and the additional need for our crews to follow COVID-19 precautionary measures, hardest hit areas may experience outages for weeks," Entergy said in a statement.
Weeks?
As utility crews safely restore power, essentially rebuilding the very system that came down in the storm, when do we as an industry assess the human cost of “weeks” without power?
Let’s start to examine and quantify the 30-40 year life-cycle costs of the T&D assets we build and “re-build” in the 21st Century.
Louisiana bears brunt of Hurricane Laura as utility COVID-19 protocols threaten restoration time
The utility sector launched a major restoration initiative, with tens of thousands of mutual aid workers helping to return power. Their efforts may be slowed by new COVID-19 protocols, however.
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