SDCEA Works Hard to Provide Reliable, Safe Energy to You Every Day
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Line crews routinely work in difficult weather conditions, as well as in challenging terrain, to install and maintain the system that provides your home or business electric service. For more on the challenges of providing power to residents in central Colorado, please see the “Terrain Presents Service Challenges” video on our website.
Contracted crews from Altitude Energy guided the placement of several poles north of Buena Vista with the aid of a helicopter service in May. Altitude is working on the distribution line from Buena Vista to Twin Lakes, which is being rebuilt to provide more reliable service to those served by both substations. To watch a video of a helicopter setting a pole north of Buena Vista in May, visit our website.
Integrity Tree Service has also been in the field working on wildfire mitigation in Chaffee and Fremont counties. Mitigation along CR 162 from Mt. Princeton to St. Elmo required skilled work, including a stretch near Cascade Falls, where the crew needed rock rappelling skills to complete their task. Integrity’s work can also be viewed in the “Terrain Presents Service Challenges,” video on our website.
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- An SDCEA crew worked in an alleyway during a downtown Buena Vista service upgrade earlier this summer.
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- Lineworkers Colton Blankenbeckler (left) and Aaron McKinney worked on an electrical service project in downtown Buena Vista.
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- Altitude Energy, SDCEA’s contractor on the reconstruction of the distribution line between the Buena Vista and Twin Lakes substations, set poles with the aid of a helicopter in steep terrain in May.
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- SDCEA’s wildfire mitigation contractor Integrity Tree Services worked in challenging conditions this spring while clearing power lines of vegetation. Here, the crew rappelled in to their worksite near Cascade Falls in Chaffee County.
