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Electric Utility Operations

Hurricane Delta: Behind the Scenes of the Restoration

Oct. 17, 2020

Utility companies share their strategies and challenges with restoring power.

More than 18,500 workers from at least 27 states worked day and night to restore power to the customers and communities impacted by Hurricane Delta, according to a recent update from the Edison Electric Institute (EEI).

As of 5 p.m. EDT on Oct. 13, about 95,800 customers were without power as a result of Delta in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, down from a peak of nearly 824,000. Crews already have restored power to nearly 90 percent of all impacted customers who are able to receive power, less than four days after the storm made landfall, the EEI stated.

Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the restoration as told in videos on social media.

About the Author

Amy Fischbach | Amy Fischbach, EUO Contributing Editor

Amy Fischbach is the contributing editor for the Electric Utility Operations section of Transmission and Distribution World. She worked for Prism Business Media (now Penton) for eight years, most recently as the managing editor of Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro magazine. She is now working as a freelance writer and editor for B2B magazines. Amy earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan.She serves as the national vice president of the American Society of Business Publication Editors. She can be reached at [email protected].