Truckee Donner Public Utility District

There were no recent reported significant distribution or transmission level outages.

TDPUD takes reliability and safety very seriously.  We work hard to maintain our electric system and respond quickly to outages.

Electric power outages in Truckee's mountainous environment are primarily caused by severe winter storms (wind, snow, and ice) creating faults or damaging equipment.  They are occasionally caused by equipment failures in TDPUD's electric distribution system, routine maintenance, or NV Energy transmission outages.

During winter storms, the primary causes of outages are from snow or ice shedding from trees and power lines or trees and limbs falling and making contact with electric distribution equipment.  Short duration interruptions - a few seconds - are the result of TDPUD's protection equipment which can distinguish between a temporary fault (snow shedding from on onto power lines creating a temporary fault, for example) and an outage requiring field repair.  In the temporary fault situation, the protection equipment automatically re-energizes the line preventing a much longer outage.

TDPUD takes electric system reliability and safety very seriously.  We work hard to maintain our electric system and respond quickly to outages.

If your home or business loses power, before you report a power outage to the TDPUD you should check to ensure that TDPUD is the cause of the power outage.  If you are at home, first check your circuit breakers and look outside to see if there is any damage on your property.  Also check to see if your neighbors are out power or not.  If you are not at home - and getting an alert from Nest or other home energy product - visit TDPUD's real-time Outage Management System to see if an outage is being reported at your address.

If you are experiencing an electric outage, to report the outage call TDPUD at 530-587-3896.

TDPUD takes reliability and safety very seriously.  We work hard to maintain our electric system and respond quickly to outages.