Indiana Michigan Power, the main electricity provider for hundreds of thousands in Michiana, is reporting a number of power outages Monday night as high winds bear down on the region. Nearly 3,000 customers have lost power in Indiana and Michigan so far. Over one third of the outages have come from St. Joseph County. Allen…
The downtown power outage from earlier this year should be less likely to happen in the future with newly announced improvements to electric cables and underground networks. Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) has announced a plan that will improve their infrastructure systems with $787 million in upgrades over the next seven years beginning in 2015. The…
South Bend Voice has learned new information regarding the downtown South Bend power outage that kept the central business district dark for three days in late May. It was caused by a 50 year old power cable. An Indiana Michigan Power investigation found that the low-voltage cable overheated. The overheated cable caused an underground fire…
Nearly a thousand customers are without power in Elkhart County as of 6 p.m. on Monday, July 7 after a squirrel got into an Indiana & Michigan Power substation. A spokesman for the utility said that power was knocked out around noon to over 4,000 customers. The company says that 102 customers remain without power…
The power remains out for nearly 25,000 households and businesses throughout Northern Indiana and Southwest Michigan. At the height of the outage, over 150,000 customers throughout the region had lost power. Indiana & Michigan Power says that power may not be fully restored until Sunday in South Bend. NIPSCO expects to restore all power today….
