Are we too reliant on unreliable power like wind and solar? Here's the full audio of our conversation with Ryan Hall from the Montana Electric Cooperative's Association.
Q2 reports that a driver lost control of their car and collided with a power pole, severing the pole and knocking out power lines in the 1900 block of 2nd Avenue North at about 2 a.m. Sunday morning. The vehicle rolled over, then collided with a house where the lone driver was ejected...
Some 2,000 customers were without power Saturday morning after wind reportedly blew a tree into a power pole. NorthWestern Energy said that streets traffic lights, business and residential areas were hit by the outage in Missoula. Noon’s gas station had to shut down pumps until power was restored, while attendants had to look after their big green dinosaur mascot, stolen during a previous outage..
About 50 homes north of Laurel lost power for much of Saturday due to weather problems. Officials with the Yellowstone Valley Electric Co-op say some overhead wires became wrapped around each other, causing a short that knocked out power for about eight hours...
We have a new power outage reported this morning around 10:30 a.m., August 13. The outage appears to have impacted by one witnesses estimate "about half of the Bitterroot Valley.
Tree limbs littered streets and damaged power lines as high speed winds rushed through Missoula causing all kinds of havoc around 6:30 yesterday evening.