Summer Shutdown Maintenance Leads to Emergency Repair

During the summer shutdown season, CAMCO was onsite to perform planned maintenance on various equipment at a steel mill.  Right before the shutdown, a last-minute request came in as some other items had started giving the customer issues before going into the shutdown.  In addition to the equipment maintenance work, during a substation switch, a bus-tie switch failed and arced, shutting down the substation.  Because CAMCO was onsite doing maintenance, the customer was able to call the technician down to help diagnose the problem and options to regain power back to the plant.  A plan was created, and an overnight emergency repair was made to the bus-tie switches and the plant was back online in 2 days’ time and allowed them to stay on schedule to re-energize.  We are grateful to our customers the trust they put in us to keep them running.