Northern Minnesota Utility Company Plans 6 Hour Outage For Customers

A utility company is telling a group of its members to plan to go without power for a period of time. The planned outage is necessary for crews to safely rebuild a power line.

Lake Country Power is notifying its customers that members served by the Sturgeon Lake B Substation will be without power starting at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, August 28th. The outage is planned to be for approximately six hours.

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Lake Country Power maintains more than 8,200 miles of distribution lines within a 10,872 square mile of service territory. They have thousands of customers, so this outage doesn't affect the majority of service areas.

Locations affected by the outage are areas of:

• Barnum
• Moose Lake
• Sturgeon Lake
• Holyoke
• Bruno
• Kerrick
• Willow River

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Members who will be impacted should receive a phone call in advance. Lake Country Power asks that members keep their contact information up to date to make sure you receive the notification. They ask that members who have any questions about the planned outage call 1-800-421-9959.

Lake Country Power estimates that 658 people will lose power for the planned outage on August 28, 2024. As we face this stretch of warmer days to close out August, temps are expected to reach a high of 80 on August 28th for the service area.

You can also check on their outage map on their website, and even report a different outage there as well.