Multiple malfunctions within minutes caused 17,300 AEP/SWEPCO customers in East Texas and Northwest Louisiana to be without power Thursday. “Within eight minutes, three things happened and our 69,000-volt transmission system locked out,” said Scott McCLoud, public information representative for AEP/SWEPCO. “Between 11:21 and 11:30 a.m., crews at our Marshall substation were working on breakers so that substation was off-line. In the same frame of time, a bird got into the equipment at the Atlanta, Texas, substation, energizing it, and it locked out. So, that substation was of...

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