March 2, 2021 – Washington Co., WI – There’s a major power outage in the Kewaskum and West Bend area. The outage was first reported around 7:06 p.m.
UPDATE at 9:37 p.m. – Our crews believe they have isolated the issue and are working on restoring power. We are estimating most customers will have power restored within the hour. It appears an issue with a piece of equipment caused the outage. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate customers patience.
Brendan Conway
Manager Media Relations
WEC Energy Group
Crews from We Energies have been dispatched and are working to restore power.
A repair crew is on site in Elkhart Lake.
We are awaiting a call back from We Energies to determine the cause of the problem.
In the past during late winter and early spring the weather had been a factor in causing outages.
| Municipality | Customers out of service |
Customers served |
|---|---|---|
| Barton (Town) | 547 | 1,452 |
| Farmington (Town) – Washington | 139 | 1,809 |
| Hartford (Town) | 1 | 1,696 |
| Kewaskum (Town) | 312 | 623 |
| Kewaskum (Village) | 177 | 2,067 |
| Milwaukee (City) | 50 | 278,377 |
| Rhine (Town) | 1 | 1,270 |
| Wauwatosa (City) | 20 | 24,570 |
| West Bend (City) | 594 |
This is a working story and more information will be posted when details become available.
