Crews with Texas New Mexico Power were expected by the end of the weekend to finish cleaning all equipment that provides power to those refineries and chemical plants that were affected by the power outages, said company spokeswoman Cathy Garber.
Date: Apr 30, 2011
Category: Business
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Today's mystery: Why did Texas City plants lose power?
The outages Monday night appeared to be due to failure of equipment owned and operated by the plants, said TNMP spokeswoman Cathy Garber. The ones Tuesday morning occurred when a buildup of soot, dust, salt and other residues on transformers and insulators causeed TNMP equipment to short-circuit.
"The main goal is to have a solution, make sure what is causing the problem and to fix it," said Cathy Garber, a spokeswoman for Texas New Mexico Power Co., the electricity provider for the affected refineries.