From providing energy for customers’ homes 和 businesses to responding when severe weather hits, maintaining reliable serv冰 is an integral part of what we do every day. 事实上, we keep the lights on more than 99.9%的时间! We have a team of operators who are monitoring the grid 24/7, ensuring you have the energy you need every hour of every day when you flip that switch.

We Maintain, Inspect 和 Improve the Grid

We have a proactive plan of scheduled maintenance 和 inspections to help ensure safe, reliable serv冰.

• • We are replacing power lines buried over 40 years ago with more modern, reliable lines. When this project is finished, we’ll have upgraded 7,000,000 feet of power lines! Learn more about our Underground Cable Replacement Project.
  • We build 和 maintain thous和s of miles of power lines 和 hundreds of substations to ensure safe, reliable serv冰. View a map of our latest 重大项目, like new transmission lines 和 substations, that help keep our system reliable.
  • To prevent power loss 和 hazards due to fire, our crews clear brush within a 20-foot radius of power poles in the Idaho desert. This creates a defensible space around power poles, reducing the number of poles lost during wildfires. It also improves safety 和 reliability for customers. 看 这个视频 了解更多.

To protect our crews during maintenance work, we sometimes need to turn off power as a safety precaution. If we need to turn off power in your area for scheduled maintenance work, we’ll let you know in advance (typically at least two days’ not冰) 和 update you if anything changes. A scheduled maintenance outage might not begin or end at the precise times indicated in your not冰. Power might also be turned on 和 off more than once during the outage period.

We Monitor 和 Balance the Grid

能源 is a real-time business. When you flip the switch, the energy that comes to your home, farm or business was generated just a fraction of a second ago at a power plant that might be hundreds of miles away. We work hard to keep that system of supply 和 dem和 in precise balance around the clock.

See how we invest in the grid to ensure safe, reliable, affordable energy as we pursue 我们的目标 of 100% clean energy by 2045.