- Dates
- 1999-02-26 – 1999-02-27
- Kind
- Disaster
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- infrastructureenergycommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On February 26, 1999, Beaver Island lost its mainland power supply when the feeding cable failed, shortly after Wolverine Power Supply workers had mothballed and red-tagged the island plant. After approvals and refueling, the emergency generator restored service. The Beacon reports that Great Lakes Energy was considering cable repair and standby generators.
Evidence limits
This record preserves the Beacon’s contemporaneous account and does not independently establish the cable’s engineering condition or the later fix.
Sources
- Reports the February 26 mainland-cable failure, the recent mothballing and red-tagging of the plant, approval and refueling delays, restoration by emergency generation, and a February 27 meeting with Great Lakes Energy chairman Ed Doss. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1999-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the outage account and its continuation across pages.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1999-04_Beaver-Beacon
- Reports that the mainland cable had been repaired and was again carrying the island load after the February outage. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1999-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the cable-repair bulletin.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1999-05_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island restores power with an emergency generator after a mainland cable failure in 1999”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-power-cable-outage-emergency-generator-1999/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1999, “The Power Outage” and “Power Outage, from page 1.” (and 3 further sources listed on the page).
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