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Power returns to South Dakota after morning full of rolling blackouts
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Power was back on for all of South Dakota early Tuesday afternoon after rolling blackouts caused by unprecedented demand on the grid led to outages throughout the eastern part of the state in the morning.
As of 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, the Southwest Power Pool turned power back on in parts of South Dakota and Minnesota that experienced rolling blackouts.
Power stations in eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota were being de-energized for up to an hour Tuesday morning on a rolling basis, according to East River Electric spokesman Chris Studer.
By Carter Woodiel
Feb 16, 2021 8:00 AM
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) About 7,000 Sioux Valley Energy customers, including 5,700 on the east side of Sioux Falls, had their power shut off as part of rolling blackouts brought on by frigid weather.
Sioux Valley energy announced the blackouts at about 7:45 a.m. Tuesday morning. They said advance notice was not possible “because of the conditions of the system.”
Unfortunately, the scenario we had hoped would NOT happen, has. The Southwestern Power Pool, which many electric…
Chris Studer with the East River Electric Cooperative provided this update:
“The Western Area Power Administration which is the Transmission Operator for our region was directed by SPP to take an outage at 7:00 a.m. this morning of about 200 megawatts. They de-energized substations in parts of western Minnesota impacting about 2,000 members of Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative and City of Tyler customers. Around the same time they also de-energize