UPDATE 9:30 PM: Not storm damage but kudos to our crews for quickly making repairs and restoring power to Fifth Street Renaissance/SARA Center's Veterans Family Renaissance home this evening. A car crash did some damage to a transformer at the supportive housing complex at 7th and Black Streets.
UPDATE 5 PM: 94 Customers are without power in an area from W Governor to Edwards between S Lincoln and S Amos.
UPDATE 4:20 PM: Sirens were activated for tornado warning.
UPDATE 3PM: Crews are on site of an outage around N 5th and N 6th S of Enterprise impacting 25 customers.
Lake area customers were restored before 12:50 pm.
UPDATE 11:40 AM: Crews are currently responding to a power outage affecting 70 customers in the Lake Springfield area near Bridgeview Park off Palm Rd. To Lakewood Dr.
You can follow status on our outage map https://outagemap.cwlp.com/ .
UPDATE 10:45 AM:
The US National Weather Service of Central Illinois predicts potential weather threats for Wednesday, June 17. Stay tuned for weather alerts and be storm ready, knowing what to do if power outages and storm damage occurs.
We’ve updated our tips to include where to find local alerts, important notes on surge protection and why storms cause large power outages. https://cwlp.com/BlogDetails.aspx/Being_Prepared_For_Storms_Power_Outages
FOR OUTAGE MAP INTERFACE, • Update your account phone contact information with CWLP Customer Service at 217-789-2030 or within online account management at
myCWLP.com in order to be able to check your property’s outage status on the utility’s Outage Map,
https://outagemap.cwlp.com/ . NOTE: During large storm outages there is some delay to the public outage map being updated. Follow our lists of outage areas to reduce high call volume at Electric Dispatch at (217-789-2121) and DO call to report new outages, power lines down and other urgent electric emergencies.
Stay Safe!
