With temperatures dropping to record lows this week, officials with both the City of Andalusia and Covington Electric Cooperative are asking residents to be frugal with their energy use.
Andalusia Mayor Earl Johnson said the city is cutting back on energy usage in an effort to avoid any outages, and hopes citizens will follow suit.
“The City of Andalusia is cutting back by discontinuing street lighting and other such lights that are not absolutely necessary,” Johnson said. “So, if you see a street light that is not illuminated, that may be because that light is intentionally turned off. It will be turned on again after this cold system has passed.”
Johnson said the added power production will cause extra stress on the system during the next 24 hours because of the added demand for electricity, which could lead to a loss of services.
“Please make every effort to conserve electricity tonight through (tomorrow) at noon to insure that we make it through the extreme conditions without anyone losing service,” Johnson said. “Working together, we can avoid any interruption in electric service during this extreme event.”
CEC General Manager Ed Short is also asking residents to... READ MORE>