PG&E outage affects Sierra-at-Tahoe, Meyers

Updated Feb. 15 11:45am:

Sierra was able to operate on generators when the power failure occurred and never had to stop operations. Power was back on by 5am Sunday.

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An underground failure has knocked out power to residents and businesses in the Echo Summit area, including the upper lifts of Sierra-at-Tahoe.

The outage started about 3:10pm Feb. 14. Power is expected to be restored by 8am Feb. 15. Initially 49 customers were without power, as of 9:30pm seven were in the dark.

No one from the ski resort was available for comment. It is not known if the outage affected the resort on Saturday.

JD Guidi with PG&E told Lake Tahoe News, “We will be working the Echo summit ski resort area behind the lodge (to fix the problem).”

For about 30 minutes Liberty Utilities customers in Meyers were also without power on Saturday night. This is because Liberty supplies PG&E with power to Echo Summit area as well as a ways down Highway 50.

“They have a reclosure that should have isolated us from that,” Randy Kelly with Liberty told Lake Tahoe News. This means PG&E outages are not supposed to affect Liberty customers.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report