As of Monday afternoon, there were still some power outages in the 200 West Area of the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site Washington state, according to an online update from the agency.
“Power has been restored to the Federal Building in Richland,” according to a post by Hanford’s landlord contractor, Leidos-led Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS).
It is part of a larger regional outage at the DOE’s Bonneville Power Administration, according to Monday reporting by the Tri-City Herald and other local news sources.
A Bonneville Power Administration spokesperson said by phone around 3:00 p.m. Eastern time that one of the utility’s big electric transmission lines serving Hanford tripped, or was knocked out of service in the morning, but that the situation has been fixed.
The outage occurred during a storm, which affected a circuit breaker at a Hanford substation, causing many Area 200 West facilities to lose power, a Hanford spokesperson said by email. Many Area 200 facilities used backup generation to keep operating, the Hanford spokesperson said.
