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Utility Cooperative Completes Substation Hardening Ahead of Storm Season

By T. Reyes

The regional utility cooperative completed a three-year, forty-million-dollar hardening project this week across the six substations historically most prone to weather-related outages, ahead of the season's projected storm activity.

Cooperative officials said the work is expected to cut storm-related outage duration in the affected service areas by roughly half.