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January 13, 2013
A portion of Walnut Hill was without power about an hour Saturday morning during a planned outage as the Escambia River Electric Cooperative power delivery system was upgraded.
Escambia River Electric Cooperative and it power supplier, PowerSouth Energy Cooperative, is in the late stages of construction a new Oak Grove Graham electric substation on Highway 99A near North Highway 99. The new facility will have a total power capacity of 20 MVA (megavolt ampere), over twice the capacity of the aging Oak Grove Substation with a total capacity of 9.375 MVA.
The new substation and new distribution lines were installed to upgrade the EREC system and meet the needs of the Genesis Rail Services Walnut Hill Station. At the facility the largest of its kind in the U.S., crude oil is transferred from the oils fields of North Dakota to Walnut Hill by train and offloaded.
The area without power Saturday morning included Arthur Brown Road, Pine Forest Road, Pineville Road, County Road 99A and connecting streets and roads.
Pictured top: Electric linemen work on County Road 99A at Highway 97, adjacent to Ernest Ward Middle School, during a planned power outage Saturday morning. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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