This Morning's Campus Power Outage
Published: February 17, 2009
This morning, a problem at a Vectren substation that powers UE caused the UE power supply to go into what is called a "single phase" condition. That in turn caused power outages and associated problems with electrical equipment, especially with things such as fan motors. Vectren has re-routed UE power, and classes will resume on schedule at 9:30 in all buildings. If you should encounter a problem in your area, call Security at extension 2051. It is possible there could be a brief power outage when Vectren switches us back to our regular power source.
In an unrelated incident, there was a fire in a vacant apartment at the Weinbach Apartments shortly before 6 a.m. No one was hurt and the fire was contained to that one unit.
