Extraordinary Storm Outage Update

Safety and security are always the top priority along with resiliency, which is why we operate a microgrid to ensure we are as site-hardened as possible.

This afternoon, the storm produced a power surge that was so extraordinary that it triggered safety breakers from the traditional electrical grid power feed as well as our microgrid.

We were able to partially restore power in under an hour and fully restore power in under 90 minutes. Because of our microgrid, we were able to restore that power much more quickly and potentially prevented a significantly longer outage.

Our microgrid and the traditional grid functioned as intended with safety features, the electrical breakers, acting to stop the surge before it could do damage to our systems.

Throughout this issue, the airfield and air traffic control tower were not affected, maintaining power throughout because of redundant feeds. As a result, planes were able to land and takeoff at PIT resulting in no cancellations due to the outage.

We appreciated the patience of our passengers as our teams, along with our partners at Duquesne Light, worked to restore our systems and return operations to normal.