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Rocky Mountain Power prepared for possible outages during the heatwave
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Salt Lake City, Utah — According to Rocky Mountain Power the company delivers more energy during summer than at any other time of the year and that’s why they asking residents to be prepared should an outage occur during the high temperatures.
“In hot weather, electricity use of all types goes up, so summer’s our peak,” said Dave Eskelsen with Rocky Mountain Power.
Rocky Mountain Power says it gears up for this kind of extreme weather during periods of calm or normal temperatures.
“We do expect to be able to weather this hot weather this week without any problems, but that said, severe weather of any kind, whether it’s hot weather or cold weather or stormy weather, can produce outages and we stand ready to deal with those when they present themselves,” Eskelsen said.
According to the power company, if outages do occur, they are usually restored within one or two hours.
“The best advice is to be prepared for either hot weather or cold weather, and have things ready to be able to whether those instances where an outage may be an extended period,” said Eskelsen.
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