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Fuel/Power Update-Hurricane Katrina
Premcor
Tennessee
Memphis
180,000
Loss of Capline supply; Reduced runs
Koch *
Texas
Corpus Christi
156,000
None
Total *
Texas
Port Arthur
285,000
Loss of supply; Reduced runs
* Refineries with company owned and operated on-site power
generation.
ELECTRICITY INFORMATION
STATE OUTAGE DATA (8/31/05 7:00 AM)
Utility
Customers
w/o Power
Total Customers
% Customers w/o Power from Katrina
Alabama
433,500
2,339,004
18.5%
Florida
80,705
9,075,577
<1%
Georgia
12,500
4,156,052
<1%
Louisiana
853,713
2,130,925
40%
Mississippi
957,815
1,420,571
67%
Total
2,257713
19,122,129
12%
STATE REPORTS
Alabama
?? 433,500 customers (as of 7:15 AM CDT 8/31/05) are without
power in Alabama due to Katrina. Of these, 335,984 are in
the Alabama Power service area. In addition, 77,558 Co-op
customers have reported outages and 20,000 Municipal
customers have reported outages. Alabama Power Company has
crews arriving from South Carolina and North Carolina.
Alabama Power has at least 700 poles down and almost 6,400
spans of distribution wire down. The company has warned
customers that although crews have already restored power to
many of the customers who lost power during Katrina,
remaining outages may take longer to restore. In addition,
the company has commitments from utilities in New York, New
Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and Oklahoma to support
restoration efforts. The Co-op Association stated that fuel
for their restoration crews is becoming an issue. Suppliers
are allocating fuel based on the "Regulation of Allocation",
and the Co-ops are concerned they may not have enough fuel
to keep all their crews operating.
?? Alabama Public Service Commission- Gas Pipeline Safety
staff reported that Mobile Gas cut off service to about 40
customers in the Bayou la Batre area last night. Coden,
along with areas in and around the river, has been shut in
at the regulator station. Many of their facilities in
downtown Mobile are under 12 feet of water but pressure is
being maintained in order to minimize damage by keeping
water out of the piping. No leaks or damage has yet been
detected in the downtown areas.
?? Legacy (an offshore drilling company) reported that the
US Coast Guard has blocked all channels. They are not able
to assess the damage to rigs in the Dauphin Island area as
there are no helicopters available for hire.
?? An oil rig which broke away and struck a bridge also
sheared a pipeline owned by Plains Marketing.
Mississippi and Louisiana
?? 957,815 (as of 8:30 AM 8/31/05) customers are without
power in Mississippi due to Katrina. Of these, 236,876 are
in the Entergy service area, 196,000 are in the Mississippi
Power service area, and 425,939 are in the Mississippi
Electric Power Association service area. This is an increase
from the last report due to a report of 100,000 outages from
TVA.
?? Louisiana Public Service Commission reports approximately
853,713 customers, or 40% of customers in the state, are
without power (as of 2:00 AM 8/31/05). This number includes
all utility, cooperatives, and municipal power providers
affected by hurricane Katrina.
Louisiana Outages by Major Utility (8/31/05 2:00 AM)
Electric Utility
Customers w/o Power
Number of Consumers (1)
% customers w/o power
Entergy Louisiana Inc
421,447
653,929
64%
Entergy Gulf States Inc
80,445
342,443
23%
Cleco Power LLC
79,672
257,299
31%
Entergy New Orleans Inc
198,762
215,163
92%
Dixie Electric Membership Corp
39,415
85,307
46%
Washington-St Tammany E C, Inc
20,000
41,304
48%
South Louisiana Elec Coop Assn
13,912
19,180
73%
City of Morgan
60
6,000
<1%
?? Just under 1 million Entergy customers remain without
power (as of 5 AM 8/31/05) in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Hurricane Katrina caused extensive damage in the Entergy
service area and, due to the scope and amount of damage to
its electrical system, Entergy expects a long and difficult
restoration. Entergy has 4,000 line workers committed to
restoring service and is working to bring in more. Entergy
is in contact with other utilities and contract workers to
bring in additional workers and pre-position as many
out-of-state utility crews as possible to quickly move in to
help restore service.
Florida
?? Approximately 80,700 customers, 1 percent of customers in
the state, remain without power in Florida due to Katrina.
This includes 69,450 Florida Power & Light customers and
11,255 Gulf Power customers. All Cooperative customers have
been restored. FPL has restored power to 95 percent of its
customers as of 6:00 AM 8/31. FPL expects to restore all of
Broward County customers by Thursday night, and all of
Miami-Dade by Friday night. They report that as soon as work
is completed in Florida line personnel and contractors will
be joining other utility companies and contractors who will
be headed to the Gulf Coast area to support that restoration
effort.
?? Gulf Power estimates that power will be restored to all
customers who can take power by Wednesday evening (8/31).
Gulf Power plans to send crews on 9/1 to support Mississippi
Power restoration efforts.
Georgia
?? Approximately 12,500 (as of 1:00 PM 8/30/05) customers
are without power in Georgia. All of those without power are
Georgia Power customers.
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