The Wire

Energy news from Omaha Public Power District

Tag: outages

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‘Bird dogs’ play key role during major outages

When a bad storm hits, external crew coordinators – or bird dogs – play a little-known but crucial role with mutual aid crews sent to help OPPD restore power.

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Ingenuity, teamwork got unit back online

The stakes were high as an OPPD team worked to find a solution to an unplanned outage at Nebraska City Station, the utility’s largest generating station.

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