The severe storms that swept through Geneva July 14 and 15 caused 20 power outages throughout the community.

Some of the outages stemmed from ComEd power lines dropping service to our substations. While the City of Geneva owns and operates its own electric utility, ComEd power lines feed the City’s substations. Geneva interconnects with ComEd to allow the City to receive energy purchased from its regional service transmission provider, PJM.

The most severe damage occurred north of State Street (Route 38), where the community is serviced by overhead wires. Trees and branches snapped electric poles and pulled down wires, causing significant outages that took days to repair in some cases. The City of Geneva would like to thank our Public Works Department crew and municipal mutual aid responders from Rantoul and Princeton for helping bring everyone back online.

Here are the power outage incidents that were reported to the City during the two evenings of storms:

Eagle Brook Neighborhood

The Eagle Brook neighborhood and east of the Fox River and south to Fabyan Parkway.
Outage occurred: 9:45 p.m. July 14
Customers: 1,300
Power Restored: 10:08 p.m. July 14
Reason: ComEd line to substation

Delnor Hospital

Delnor Hospital, Fisher Farms and Pepper Valley neighborhoods
Outage occurred: 9:49 p.m. July 14
Customers: 1,476
Power Restored: 10:05 p.m. July 14
Reason: Same as above

Ridge Lane

100 block of Ridge Lane
Outage occurred: 9:50 p.m. July 14
Customers: 4
Power Restored: 11:15 a.m. July 15
Reason: Failed cutout, which is a combination of a fuse and a switch used in primary overhead feeder lines to protect distribution transformers from surges and overloads.

South Street

1000 block of South Street
Outage occurred: 9:50 p.m. July 14
Customers: 1
Power Restored: 1:13 a.m. July 15
Reason: A tree fell on an electric pole

First Street

800 block of North First Street
Outage occurred: 9:50 p.m. July 14
Customers: 1
Power Restored: 7:30 p.m. July 16
Reason: Broken electric pole

Valley Lane

800 block of Valley Lane
Outage occurred: 9:50 p.m. July 14
Customers: 3
Power Restored: 11:15 a.m. July 15
Reason: Failed cutout

Area Of Grey Street

Outage occurred: 9:50 p.m. July 14
Customers: 169
Power Restored: 6:40 p.m. July 15
Reason: Broken electric pole

Meade Court

Outage occurred: 9:50 p.m. July 14
Customers: 6
Power Restored: 12:57 a.m. July 15
Reason: A tree fell on an electric pole

Jefferson & Woodlawn Streets

Outage occurred: 9:51 p.m. July 14
Customers: 34
Power Restored: 1:27 p.m. July 15
Reason: Failed cutout

North & Richards Streets

Outage occurred: 10 p.m. July 14
Customers: 20
Power Restored: 6:36 p.m. July 15
Reason: Transformer needed to be replaced and a new wire hung

McKinley Avenue & Anderson Boulevard

200 block of McKinley Avenue and 200-500 blocks of Anderson Boulevard
Outage occurred: 10:50 p.m. July 14
Customers: 43
Power Restored: 10:35 a.m. July 15
Reason: Broken electric pole

Syril Drive & West Street

Outage occurred: 10:50 p.m. July 14
Customers: 22
Power Restored: 10:55 p.m. July 15
Reason: Tree damaged electric equipment

West Of River

Four outages in an area bounded by the Fox River on the east, south of State Street, west to Seventh Street and north of South Street
Outages occurred: 10:50 p.m. July 14
Customers: 2,029
Power Restored: 12:30 a.m., 1:53 a.m., 4:57 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. July 15
Reason: Weather damage to electric equipment

Maple Lane & Center Street

Outage occurred: 11:03 a.m. July 15
Customers: 17
Power Restored: 12:53 p.m. July 16
Reason: Weather damage

Delnor Hospital

Delnor Hospital, Fisher Farms, and Pepper Valley neighborhoods
Outage occurred: 8:55 p.m. July 15
Customers: 1,470
Power Restored: 1:13 a.m. July 16
Reason: Electric pole fire and broken poles

South Of The Tracks

Areas south of the Union Pacific West Railway, east of Western Avenue to the Fox River
Outage occurred: 8:55 p.m. July 15
Customers: 364
Power Restored: 10:40 p.m. July 15
Reason: Electric pole fire and broken poles

South Of State Street

Area south of State Street, north of the tracks, and from Seventh Street to the Fox River
Outage occurred: 8:55 p.m. July 15
Customers: 216
Power Restored: 1:14 a.m. July 16
Reason: Electric pole fire and broken poles

As a reminder, Geneva residents should report after-hour or weekend power outages to the Geneva Police Department. Police will then dispatch the appropriate Public Works staff to respond to the incident. Our online request tracker system and social media accounts are not monitored 24 hours a day.