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A planned outage is scheduled for electric customers in Boyd County, as well as parts of Holt and Knox counties, Sunday, March 17, from 1 to 5 p.m., to prepare for the replacement of a transformer at the substation that serves the area.

The outage will impact Nebraska Public Power District customers in the communities of Butte, Bristow, Lynch and the village of Spencer, as well as Niobrara Valley Electric Membership Corporation customers in rural Boyd County, northwestern Knox County and northern Holt County.

“Outages are not convenient for anyone but taking this planned outage will allow our crews to prepare the site for the new transformer and to upgrade equipment at the substation, which will ensure reliable service to the area for many years to come,” noted NPPD account manager Brittney Koenig.

While the outage is taking place, crews from NPPD and Niobrara Valley will be completing some additional work on the distribution system in the area, that would otherwise require a planned outage to be completed.

“We never like when any of our customers have to experience an outage, so taking advantage of this planned outage to complete additional work will prevent us from needing to take additional outages in the future,” notes Niobrara Valley Electric Membership Corporation general manager Matt Fritz.

Two more additional outages will be observed at later dates and customers will be notified of these times and dates.

NPPD works closely with the impacted public power companies and communities to schedule any planned outages.