Batavia Police have been notified that sometime in the next hour, National Grid will need to shut off the electricity at the intersection of Ross and East Main streets for an emergency repair.
Numerous power outages have plagued Genesee County throughout the day, with the largest and longest lasting affecting more than 300 customers in the western area of Batavia (both city and town).
Power to those customers is not expected to be restored until after 3 p.m.
Five hundred customers in Alexander had power restored an hour or so ago. Many of the other power outages affect five customers or less.
National Grid provides an interactive map of power outages on its Web site. Snapshot of the map above taken about 1 p.m.
At this hour, National Grid reported about 410 homes are without power in Genesee County.
The areas most widely struck:
There is no ETA listed for power to be restored in those locations.
UPDATE: Most of this power -- all except Bergen -- has been restored.
More than 220 National Grid customers along Route 98 south of the city are without power.
The National Grid web site says the power outage effects the town and village of Alexander as well as part of the Town of Batavia.
National Grid estimates power will be restored about 5:30 p.m.
UPDATE 4:14 p.m.: Power has been restored. Steve Brady at National Grid said it was a short outage that was necessary to replace a failing lightning arrester. It's safer to take power offline to make a quick, but much needed repair. "It was an unplanned, planned outage," Brady said. Normally, National Grid likes to notify customers of planned outages, but when this particular faulty arrester was found, engineers decided it should be replaced right away to avoid a bigger problem later. (Lightning arrester pictured)
WBTA reports that 2,200 homes and businesses have been hit by a power outage that has also disabled the stop light at Route 33 and Route 5.
The power outage effects the Aldi's shopping center, reaching into the Town of Batavia and Stafford.
UPDATE: Photo of downed lines along Seven Springs Road, submitted by Chris Olin.
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