Westminster schedules late night power outage

Three Westminster transformers will be temporarily taken off line late at night next week for service work.  The city of Westminster says it intends to make the outage as brief as possible.  The outage is planned for between four and six hours starting at 11 o’clock Saturday night, June 1.  The announcement states:  “Servicing this bank of 4400 kV transformers is necessary to maintain the reliability of this section, known as Circuit 3, of our electrical distribution system.”  The city has a stated goal to eliminate the low voltage portion of the system and go to a higher 7,200 kV for more efficiency.