COLUMBUS – Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine issued the following statement on last week's power outages:
"On Wednesday, June 15, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio announced that it would conduct a review of all Ohio’s electric utilities related to electric power outages following storms that occurred on June 13 and actions that those utilities may or may not have taken.
I support this review and note that many of the questions Ohioans are asking in the light of these power failures should be reviewed as part of the PUCO process, including:
- What steps are Ohio’s utilities taking to ensure that the significant disruption Ohioans experienced last week does not occur again?
- Why certain central Ohio neighborhoods lost power and others did not?
- Why certain northeast Ohio communities took the better part of a week to come back online?
- Did utilities do enough to communicate to their customers ahead of planned power shut-offs to protect the grid, especially when electronic communications cannot be accessed without electricity?
