All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked trees over.
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Customers will have an easier time paying smaller monthly bills, so we will expect to see fewer cases of customers walking away without paying a final bill because it is just too high.
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On South Cloverdale Road, there were both poles and lines down, which took crews four hours to replace. Most of the customers hit were residential. There may have been a school without power, but that is less of a problem on a Sunday.
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In response to higher electric costs, many customers have asked us to switch to monthly billing. We think monthly billing will especially help those on fixed incomes.
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We'd like to see Bonneville use the (surplus power) sales to keep rates as low as possible. We don't need another rate-raising factor out of our control.
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The first outage was at 8:20 a.m., and the last customer was back on by 3:30 p.m.. Most problems were taken care of in one to three hours.
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We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus larger, occasional rate increases.
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