Preventing Outages
What is Edmond Electric doing to reduce the incidence of outages?
- We prune trees along our power lines on a regular cycle to help prevent them from damaging or blowing into our power lines.
- We use special insulated wire in heavily wooded areas that can better resist damage from falling tree limbs.
- Lightning arresters are in place to provide a harmless path to the ground for electrical surges.
- We use grounded shield wire above some power lines that acts as a shield from lightning strikes.
- We install animal guards around our field equipment to protect against short circuits caused by animals.
- We continually upgrade our facilities to keep pace with growth in our area and enhance reliability.
