UPDATE: 5/20/20 10:15AM – Switching is complete. BRC power has been restored. Planned outage work is complete.
UPDATE: 5/20/20 9:50AM – Cable tested good. Switching outage for ASB and Godley-Snell will be at 10AM.
UPDATE: 5/20/20 9:10AM – Cable transition is going smoothly. Testing cable soon to prepare for switching outage on ASB and Godley-Snell.
UPDATE: 5/20/20 6:55AM – Outage for BRC will begin today at 7:00AM. The building will be without generator backup during this outage that will last approximately 3 hours. Godley-Snell and Administrative Services building will experience a one minute outage at the end of the outage work affecting BRC.
UPDATE: 5/19/20 10:00AM – BRC failed to go on generator power and remainder of outage work has been put on hold. The time for the second outage for Administrative Services and Godley-Snell will be scheduled with those building BSCs.
UPDATE: 5/19/20 7:00AM – Group 3 outage on schedule for 7:30AM today. BRC will remain on generator back up while transition work is being completed. Follow-up outage for Godley-Snell and Administrative Services Building expected at 12:00PM. BRC will be restored to utility power at this time.
UPDATE: 5/18/20 4:45PM – Group 2 power restored. Work complete for the day. Next outage for Group 3 buildings tomorrow morning at 7:30AM. Another update will be sent before outage begins.
UPDATE: 5/18/20 4:20PM – Cable termination and testing complete. 4:30 PM outage for group 2 buildings on schedule.
UPDATE: 5/18/20 3:15PM – Work is progressing slowly in preparation for the Group 2 outage. If no further issues arise, outage will still happen at 4:30PM, but there is a possibility of a delay for the start of the outage.
UPDATE: 5/18/20 12:55PM – All clear from Duke. No additional outages are anticipated for Group 1 buildings. Group 2 buildings on schedule at this time for 4:3oPM outage.
UPDATE: 5/18/20 12:40PM – Group 1 loads transferred successfully. Final testing on Duke substation protection equipment before releasing us to continue loading should be completed in 10 minutes.
UPDATE: 5/18/20 12:18PM – On schedule for Group 1 outage at 12:30PM. Group 1 will have a 1 minute power outage starting at 12:30PM.
UPDATE: 5/18/20 – 10:45AM – Power is on to new Switching Stations. Still on schedule.
UPDATE: 5/18/20 – 7:05AM – Hendrix 1st outage is complete. Building power is restored.
UPDATE: 5/18/20 – 6:50AM – Everything on track. First outage for Hendrix will proceed at 7AM this morning.
Clemson University Facilities is working to transition the campus electrical distribution feed from the old Duke Power substation that was built in 1968 to the new substation that was just constructed on the SE edge of campus. In order to transition our distribution feeders and stations over to the new source, a few brief electrical power outages are going to be needed early next week that will affect all of campus. Energization of the new substation feed will occur Monday, May 18th. Outages are expected to last less than one minute each and are being planned in a rolling fashion across three groups to affect each campus building as few times as possible. The latest information regarding this outage will appear at the top of this post.
We’re aware of the inconvenience this may cause to many working from home, particularly those who are connecting remotely to work machines operating on campus power. Desktop PCs that are shut off as a result of the outage will need to be manually turned back on. We recommend using CUapps until this is possible for you to do so.
Areas that will be affected by campus distribution outages are shown on the map below.
This visual shows the the electrical distribution area for Clemson University.
If you have anything that would be adversely affected by this outage, please contact Bret McCarley at bmccarl@clemson.edu with the details so we may plan accordingly and limit the impact to campus activities.
The first outage will occur in the Hendrix Student Center at 7:00 a.m. Monday, May 18th. Thereafter, outages are being planned in a rolling fashion across 3 groups to affect each campus building as few times as possible. Group 1 loads are currently scheduled to experience a one minute outage at 12:30 p.m. Monday, May 18th. Group 2 loads (which includes the Hendrix Student Center) are currently scheduled to experience a one minute outage at 4:30 p.m. Monday, May 18th. Group 3 loads are currently scheduled to experience a one minute outage at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 19th. The Biological Research Center will remain on emergency generator power until new terminations are installed on existing cable and connected to the new feed. The Admin Services Building and Godley-Snell will experience an additional outage when this cable is terminated and ready for energization (approximately 3-4 hours later).
