I've heard of ComEd in our area paying for damaged appliances due to an
overvoltage surge, but I don't know that they had to do it.
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From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Matt Hoppes
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Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT : Power company
Interesting. I’ve always heard they were immune.
> On Jan 3, 2021, at 6:11 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not sure what you're talking about. PG&E was found liable for many billions
> of dollars of property damage after several fires were determined to have
> originated from their falling power lines. They had to go bankrupt to resolve
> the cost.
>
> They were also found liable when their poorly constructed gas line blew up
> and removed a couple dozen homes from the face of the earth (also cot them
> billions).
>
> Many years ago, they had a problem that grounded one side of a split phase
> transformer. It cause one phase to our house to go dead, and the other phase
> to go to 220 volts. Blew up numerous things. PG&E had to cough up replacement
> cost for all the things we had to replace.
>
> Of course, your mileage may vary.
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
>> On 1/3/2021 3:03 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
>> How is it that power companies have immunity from damage?
>>
>> It’s like a Shaggy song.
>> Send a surge that blows appliances? Wasn’t me.
>> Send 60 volts for 5 minutes that kills stuff? Wasn’t me.
>> Food all goes bad because we killed your freezer? Wasn’t me.
>>
>> I’m not talking about a full on outage. That happens. But how do power
>> companies get away with immunity from provided improper service that blows
>> stuff?
>>
>>
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