WATERTOWN – Nearly 3,000 We Energies customers lost power on Sunday morning following a series of weather-related equipment failures. According to official utility alerts, a total of 2,918 customers were affected starting at 8:46 a.m. local time.
We Energies identified the cause as rain-damaged equipment located near the Concord Generating Station, situated just outside the city limits between Concord Avenue and the Rock River. While the utility has not yet disclosed the specific nature of the hardware failure, the outage has prompted immediate attention from regional grid monitoring services.
Third-party tracking service PowerOutage.us, which utilizes independent data aggregation to monitor grid status, reported a higher impact figure of 3,952 affected customers in the immediate vicinity. This discrepancy often occurs due to differences in how utilities and third-party monitors define specific service area boundaries.
As of mid-morning Sunday, We Energies had not yet confirmed the deployment of a repair crew to the site. The utility provided an estimated restoration time of 11:30 a.m. Sunday for affected residents and businesses. Local authorities have advised residents to treat all downed power lines as energized and to report any immediate hazards to emergency services.