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'Equipment Malfunction' Cuts Power To 12K In Capital District Days After Similar Outage
Just two days after a similar outage, power was again knocked out to thousands of customers in the Capital District on Tuesday afternoon, July 19.
In Rensselaer County, about 12,000 customers in East Greenbush lost power at around 2:20 p.m. due to an equipment malfunction at a nearby substation, according to National Grid spokesperson Patrick Stella.
The outage lasted roughly 90 minutes, affecting homes and businesses in parts of East Greenbush, Schodack, and Troy.
Stella said the substation involved is the same one that was impacted by a fire on Sunday, July 17, that cut power to the same…
