Back-to-back power outages left thousands of Milwaukee County customers without electricity Monday, after a failed piece of equipment and a round of severe storms knocked out service across the region.
We Energies says the two outages stemmed from separate problems. The first began when equipment failed at a Milwaukee substation, cutting power to about 18,000 customers before storms even arrived.
“It was a piece of equipment that failed. They replaced it actually not long after I talked to you. They brought this big piece of equipment in about 30 minutes later. All those customers were restored by yesterday afternoon,” We Energies spokesperson Brendan Conway said.
Storms then brought down trees, wires and power poles, knocking out power to as many as 90,000 customers. We Energies deployed 500 workers, including crews from across the Midwest, to restore service…