CLEVELAND — Power has been restored to residents on Cleveland's west side after an overnight outage Monday.
Cleveland Public Power says the outage was caused by a blown transformer at the Ridge Road substation.
No additional details were immediately available.
Cleveland City Hall issued the following explanation around 11 a.m.
"At 1:10 a.m. on Monday, October 21, 2019, the 138,000 volt transmission line serving Cleveland Public Power customers on the west side of Cleveland tripped at Lake Road. The cause the tripping was a surge protector that failed at our Ridge Road substation. A total of 42,242 customers were initially affected by the outage. Once the cause of the outage was ascertained, CPP closed the breakers at Lake Road and restored service to CPP customers served from the Division Avenue and the West 41st Street substations. Service to those 41,442 customers was restored at 2:20 a.m., one hour and ten minutes after the initial outage. CPP crews then attended to the failed surge protector at Ridge Road substation. At 3:25 a.m., service was restored to the remaining 800 customers that were served by the Ridge Road substation, two hours and fifteen minutes after the initial outage."
