LAKEWOOD, Ohio (WOIO) – FirstEnergy conducted a power outage in Lakewood Thursday to protect the equipment at a substation and to prevent an unplanned and wider outage, according to a FirstEnergy spokesperson.
FirstEnergy said they were performing necessary repairs on a transformer and underground line at a substation, and as the heat and humidity rose throughout the day, the load on the other equipment at the substation was increasing, so they proactively did the controlled outage.
The outages are from Warren Road to Wager Road between Madison and Detroit Ave…