Monday outage affects more than 1,100

More than 1,100 electric customers in Rock County and surrounding areas were without power for up to 90 minutes early Monday morning.
Two substations were involved in the outage, one located west of Luverne on County Road 4 and the other near Hardwick. Both substations were connected to L & O Power Cooperative, which brings wholesale electricity to cooperatives in Lyon, Osceola, Rock and Pipestone counties.
Sioux Valley Electric spokesperson Carrie Law said workers indicated equipment failure as the reason for the outage and were still trying to pinpoint the cause on Tuesday.
Law said reports of the outage occurred just before 3:30 a.m. and affected 518 rural customers served by the Luverne substation along with the city of Luverne. Power was restored after 90 minutes.
The Hardwick outage lasted 36 minutes and affected 614 rural customers and the city of Hardwick, Law said.