Overview
- A transmission/transformer failure on Thursday evening cut the main supply to Washington County and left tens of thousands of customers without electricity.
- Rocky Mountain Power restored many customers by late Thursday, but Dixie Power remains at roughly 25% generation capacity and has kept rotating outages in place.
- St. George declared a red alert and urged residents to conserve energy, especially during the 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. high-risk window tied to the evening drop in solar generation.
- Utilities and local crews are using staged restorations, backup feeds and mobile emergency generators to protect critical services while engineers investigate the fault.
- The outage disrupted events and strained water systems, prompting water-conservation advisories and requests from police to reserve 911 for true emergencies as the region faces the risk of further rolling outages.