We know how much you rely on us to power your day — from morning routines and family time to work and everything in between. That’s why we’re investing in a stronger, more resilient energy system. By updating aging equipment, burying power lines and strengthening the grid against severe weather, we’re working to reduce outages and restore your service faster when disruptions occur.
We are improving reliability by:
- Rebuilding aging overhead lines and replacing them with stronger wires, poles and associated support structures.
- Replacing underground cables that are at the end of their life with cables that are built for greater reliability.
- Burying 60 to 80 miles of overhead conductors per year over the next five to 10 years as part of our storm hardening efforts.
- Installing more remote sensing and circuit protection devices — improving safety and restoration speed.
These projects benefit you by:
- Keeping your service more reliable during severe weather and other disruptions.
- Limiting the number of customers affected when an outage occurs.
- Restoring power faster using smart technology to identify and isolate problems.
- Helping keep your home, business and community powered through changing conditions.
Grid technology
Smart switches can automatically isolate affected sections of the energy system and quickly reroute power to restore service. More than 700 smart switches monitor our electric grid for signs of trouble around the clock. So far in 2026, smart switches and other grid technology helped customers avoid more than 2.7 million minutes of outage time.
