More on Power Outage
The line that feeds Wolfeboro from Ossipee and or Meredith carries the
Power to Wolfeboro's substation. As one stated The Municipal Electric Dept
of Wolfbeboro one of 5 remaining in the State distributes the power to Wolfeboro
PSNH before deragulation was the sole wholesale Power Supplier to Wolfeboro.
A Municipal with its compact system usually insures
favorably rates. However, 99 per cent of Municipal Electric Dept stand alone
with their own administration, own linemen, and a Board of Commission. This was the way until Wolfeboro changed to Town Mgr. form of Gov. The Electric Dept should stand alone, hire there own locally employees and deal with
the union issues. Check out Littleton.
Anyways, the Main Line into Wolfeboro is owned by PSNH to the Wolfeboro line.
wherein the remaining 3 miles is owned by The Electric Dept. It is cleared to the right of way lines. A huge tree coming down on this line entails 5-6 hrs
of outage. Prepare for a long outage. We were lucky the time before this,
when we were only out a short time. The high line is through the woods, with no roads and can you imagine hunting for an outage all the way to Ossipee or neighboring towns in the rain and dark.
Although the Power Plant was a nice asset for many years, and actually saved as a reserve off the PSNH bill.
Sometimes things happen in bunches, so we may not see another High Line
failure in several years, however, my suggestion would be to look at another
possible backup line into Wolfeboro, maybe in Brookfield or Alton.
We are not afraid to spend money for consultants, so why not look at it and
use the million dollars alocated for automatic meter reading to check it out.
My opinion is that instead of
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