Goudey Substation Problems Blamed for Massive Outage

New York State Electric and Gas says this time it was equipment failure at AES Westover, formerly known as the Goudey Substation off Riverside Drive in Johnson City that cut power to some 7,400 customers just before 6 p.m. September 16, four days after more than 3,000 customers lost power in Johnson City and parts of the Town of Union for close to two hours.

Both large outages happened during clear weather with no indication of a spike in power use.

The September 12 outage is blamed on wires coming down, also at AES.

The September 16 power interruption lasted less than a half hour.  But the glitch reached farther since it also affected substations at Vestal,  Rano Boulevard and Binghamton University.

For decades, Goudey had been a coal-burning electric generating plant as well as an electric substation until the electric generation portion was phased out several years ago when New York State Electric and Gas was acquired by Iberdrola, which is based in Spain.