December 30, 2022 10:00 a.m.

Following a recent windstorm, Douglas Electric Cooperative has 251 meters without power, as of mid-day Friday.

Assistant General Manager Phil Bigler said all DEC crews as well as additional contract line and tree crews are currently out in the field working to get the outage restored as quickly and safely as possible.

Bigler said the biggest group of meters without power is out of the Reedsport substation, where 155 meters are out. 148 of those are in the Tenmile Lake area. A few dozen meters are out in both the Gardiner and Drain substations. 16 meters are out of the Elkton substation with less than 10 out of the Scottsburg substation

At the peak of the outage on Tuesday, close to 2,000 meters were without power.

Get updates from Douglas Electric at: https://www.dec.coop/outage-center/outage-status/