PLANNED POWER OUTAGE for ORCAS ISLAND
Thursday, October 11 @ 11:30 pm – Friday, October 12 @ 5:30 am Much of Orcas Island will be affected by a planned power outage in order to complete … Read more
Engineering and Operations
OPALCO Pole Replacement for Orcas Road Re-Alignment
OPALCO is relocating a line of transmission poles along Orcas Road as part of the County’s road re-alignment project. The new poles will be strung with larger transmission wire which … Read more
COUNTY-WIDE PLANNED POWER OUTAGES OVERNIGHT
Tuesday, September 25th at 12:30 am & Tuesday October 23rd at 12:30 am All of San Juan County will be affected by a series of two planned outages necessary for … Read more
Power Line Clearing Work in Progress
OPALCO tree trimming crews are at work throughout San Juan County clearing vegetation from around power lines for safety and to prevent outages this coming winter. This work is part … Read more
Major Power Outage Caused by Car Accident – OPALCO Building New Path for Power
All of Orcas, Shaw, Blakely and some of Lopez island were without power for almost 10 hours after a car accident on Lopez took out a transmission pole at 10:30 … Read more
July 10th is Line Worker Appreciation Day
OPALCO’s team of line workers keep the lights on for more than 11,300 co-op members on 20 islands in San Juan County. That is no small task! Governor Jay Inslee … Read more