{"id":36184,"date":"2019-04-10T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fkec.com\/?p=36184"},"modified":"2019-11-07T21:15:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T02:15:11","slug":"sailboat-causes-widespread-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fkec.com\/2019\/04\/sailboat-causes-widespread-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailboat Causes Widespread Power Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Yesterday at\u00a05:04PM, a sailboat broke loose from its moorings and came in contact with our\u00a0radial 138,000-volt\u00a0transmission line at MM 73.8\u00a0causing a widespread\u00a0outage. The outage impacted consumers from Islamorada down to Key West. FKEC immediately worked to\u00a0switch power loads around to restore as many members\u00a0as possible while working with FWC, MCSD, and\u00a0the Coast Guard to remove\u00a0the vessel.<\/div>\n<p>The line was restored at\u00a06:41PM\u00a0bringing power back to all FKEC and Keys Energy Service consumers. The sailboat was unmanned and fortunately, no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>While power was able to be restored, FKEC will inspect the line and make any additional repairs necessary to ensure reliability.<\/p>\n<h2>About FKEC<\/h2>\n<p>Florida Keys Electric Cooperative is a member-owned, not-for-profit electric utility serving approximately 33,000 accounts from the\u00a0County line to the Seven Mile\u00a0Bridge. In our service\u00a0territory,\u00a0we currently operate six substations, two office facilities, and maintain\u00a0over 800-miles of power lines. As a distribution cooperative,\u00a0FKEC also maintains a\u00a0138,000-volt\u00a0transmission line, which brings\u00a0power from the mainland to the Florida Keys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at\u00a05:04PM, a sailboat broke loose from its moorings and came in contact with our\u00a0radial 138,000-volt\u00a0transmission line at MM 73.8\u00a0causing a widespread\u00a0outage. The outage impacted consumers from Islamorada down to Key West. FKEC immediately worked to\u00a0switch power loads around to restore as many members\u00a0as possible while working with FWC, MCSD, and\u00a0the Coast Guard to remove\u00a0the [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":36185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"1969-12-31 19:00:00","action":"","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","browser_timezone_offset":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fkec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}