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Old 05-14-2013, 04:19 AM
 
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Do many areas of Phoenix (and suburbs) get power outages often? (I've heard Tucson gets them weekly)
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Old 05-14-2013, 05:19 AM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix, AZ USA
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No. You may see an outage in a particular area during a bad thunderstorm in the summer, but they rarely last long.
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Old 05-14-2013, 11:33 AM
 
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I live in an srp neighborhood and sometimes will see power fluctuations. Like the other day, the power just shut off and came back on about 5 seconds later. Its sucks because it resets my alarm clock. The time will stay the same, but the alarm settings change back to default, 12:00 am. lol. But I guess it is better than not having electricity at all.
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Old 05-14-2013, 12:56 PM
 
Location: In the Deem Hills of NW Phoenix
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I live in far NW Phoenix and the power only has only gone off once in the 7 or so years we've lived here. I think it was due to a hit light pole or something, though, not a rolling brownout etc. There are times during monsoon storms when power is knocked out in particular neighborhoods due to storms, though.
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Old 05-14-2013, 01:17 PM
 
Location: Casa Grande, AZ (May 08)
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If you are asking whether our basic power grid is stable the answer is an unqualified YES! Power outages of a short nature can occur ANYWHERE due to vehicle accidents, weather issues, etc. But its not like our equipment is failing so often that power just goes out all the time.....
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Old 05-14-2013, 01:31 PM
 
Location: Southern Arizona
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Do many areas of Phoenix (and suburbs) get power outages often? (I've heard Tucson gets them weekly)
WOW, HACESOL . . . there must be TWO Tucsons.

I relocated to Tucson about 15 years ago and Electric Power Failures are RARE. Definitely more like ONCE A YEAR or less and that's usually during a Big Monsoon Storm . . . definitely NOT weekly.
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Old 05-14-2013, 01:31 PM
 
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Do many areas of Phoenix (and suburbs) get power outages often? (I've heard Tucson gets them weekly)
100% false
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Old 05-14-2013, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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Power failures are pretty rare anymore particularly in the burbs where the utilities are, for the most part, underground. Even in the older parts of town, the utilities have been aggressive in replacing wooden power poles with underground infrastructure. Don't know about Tucson. They do seem to be a bit behind the curve on most things there.
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Old 05-14-2013, 02:54 PM
 
Location: Queen Creek, AZ
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Don't know about Tucson. They do seem to be a bit behind the curve on most things there.
Agreed, considering that Tucson was slower to dump swamp coolers in favor of air conditioners for new construction, with some homes even built into the early 1990s still using only swamp coolers. I wouldn't be surprised if the electrical infrastructure in the Tucson area isn't as robust as the Phoenix area.

Also, Tucson Electric Power (TEP) doesn't use smart meters like APS or SRP, but uses Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) meters which are read by meter readers driving by with a remote collector. Unlike the smart meters used by APS and SRP, TEP's AMR meters do not track electricity usage in real time, since they still need to be read by a meter reader driving by, except that the reader doesn't not have to get out of his/her vehicle to read the meter in person.
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Old 05-14-2013, 07:25 PM
 
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Don't know about Tucson. They do seem to be a bit behind the curve on most things there.

ouch!....(though you may be correct in some ways).....

weekly power outages here in Tucson??.....who told you that?....last time was when somebody hit a nearby power pole - a couple years ago....oh, maybe a summer storm knocked us out last year....
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