Planned Power Outages

Excel has begun to plan power outages around high-wind days. These widespread outages can last several days and cause significant disruption to households, businesses, and essential service providers, like hospitals. Excel needs to come up with an alternate plan immediately to address high-wind risks, such as burying overhead utility infrastructure underground, etc. The response to high wind risk can not be to shut off power for an unknown number of days. This puts many individuals with limited mobility or dependent on life-sustaining equipment (such as oxygen tanks, etc) which rely on electricity at significant risk. In addition, Excel is causing significant loss of income to business and impact to customers not being able to work at home, loss of perishable goods, etc. during these outages. They need to find an alternate way to mitigate risk to their grid without putting thousands others at risk.