For those of you following the Marsh Lake water level charts that we've been posting regularly, we have a new one which can be found here. You'll notice that the water still has not reached what is known as the Full Supply Level. Our water license sets out a range in which we can operate...if the water goes above the high level, known as the Full Supply Level, it will have done so naturally and not because of any regulation of the lake on our part.
Our license also says that if the water has not reached Full Supply Level by August 15th, we can close some of our gates at the Marsh Lake control structure, allowing us to store some water for use later in the year. Earlier this week we closed five gates. However we will keep a close eye on the water levels and if the water does reach Full Supply Level we will again open those gates.
by Yukon Hootch
YEC very diligently updates its blog however in addition to the ‘good news’ stories the blog primarly discusses, the public would also appreciate a little accountability from YEC to it’s valued customers; when there is an unscheduled power outage YEC customers shouldn’t have to read about why their power went out from the newspaper:
http://whitehorsestar.com/archive/story/yec-worker-error-cut-power-to-14000/
I reviewed this website up to October 2009 (ran out of time looking) and only noted two blog entries explaining outages. Interesting.
YEC would like its customers to believe that all outages are because of wildlife, trees, Yukon Electric, etc. What about the employee caused outages such as what the Star reported and what disciplinary action is taken against these employees? Are all employees reprimanded equally???
08.20.2010
by Yukon Energy
Yukon Hootch: thank you for your comment. The person who maintains this web site had fully intented to post an entry about the power outage, but she was called out of town because of a family emergency. As a general rule Yukon Energy does post information about outages, both about specific outages and about reliability issues in general. If you click on the header ‘reliability’ at the right of this web site you will find several stories on this topic.
It is not true that Yukon Energy wants our customers to believe that all our outages are because of wildlife, trees or Yukon Electric. If it is an equipment problem or human error, we are up front about that, both on this blog and when speaking to the media. In terms of disciplinary action, this was an honest mistake by an employee. It was not a malicious act. In cases like this (and they are very rare at Yukon Energy) we believe that training and education is a far more productive response.
08.30.2010
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