Residents of Greenfield and Griswold will experience brief power outages this week. Officials with the Nishna Valley Rural Electric Cooperative (NVREC) report that on Wednesday, June 10th, NVREC members in the Griswold area will experience a brief, 10-15 minute power outage between 9:00am and 10:00am while crews make substation equipment replacements.

Officials with Greenfield Municipal Utilities report GMU will be conducting mandatory Black Start Testing from 10-p.m. Tuesday, June 9th through 6-a.m. Wednesday, June 10th. The process allows GMU to test their ability and train their employees to re-power the town in the event of a complete loss of power from their supplier, Central Iowa Power Cooperative. During the test, some or all customers may experience an interruption of their power service for short periods of time.

Officials say if all goes as planned, the outage should not last more than 10-minutes at a time, and service may be out numerous times during the event. GMU says they understand the inconvenience of this testing, and has tried to schedule it to hours with less demand on the electric system, to avoid seriously impacting as many customers as possible. If you have any questions, call GMU during their business hours (7:30-a.m. to 4:30-p.m.) at 641-743-2741.