Yes, it will come back. Although your restoration is important to us, sometimes there are more urgent priorities that need to be addressed, such as public safety hazards, critical care, emergency operations centers and communication centers.
The truck may also be on the way to a transmission line, substation or circuit outage that will restore the greatest number of customers at the same time, you included. Our crews work round the clock during an outage, so they will return to your location as soon as they can if you remain without power.
- Outages & Emergencies
It could be that your neighbor is served on a different circuit, but there could be trouble in just your section of the line or in the equipment that services you directly. Or, the cause of the outage could be an individual service problem at your home, unrelated to Unitil.
- Outages & Emergencies
It sounds like something unexpected happened in the field. Our estimated restoration times are based on the best information we have, but they are still ultimately estimates. We will update those times if needed as an outage unfolds overtime. If we have additional information we think helps explain what is going on, we will relay that info via social media.
- Outages & Emergencies
No public-facing outage map for natural gas customers is planned at this time, though we are constantly reviewing new ways to provide information to customers and will continue to review new options as technology makes them available.
- Outages & Emergencies
ETR stands for “estimated time of restoration,” and is our best estimate as to how long it will take to restore power. As estimates are inexact by their very nature, we provide a range of times to try and give you a general idea as to when work will be complete and power will be restored.
- Outages & Emergencies
There is a lag of a few minutes between the information on the map and the information our crews are working from, but the data you see on the map is basically the same as what our operations teams are working from. Occasionally, there will be a delay in an outage getting removed from the map, and crews need to confirm work is complete before the map is cleared.
- Outages & Emergencies
If you are experiencing a loss of power to your home, you can report your outage:
- through your MyUnitil account under the "Account Services" tab -> "Report an Outage"
- online using our outage submission form
- using the MyUnitil mobile app -> click "Report a Power Outage"
- by calling our Customer Service line at 1-888-301-7700
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- Electric Service
When you report your outage, a Customer Service representative makes sure that your address is loaded into our outage management system. The computer then looks at all the different calls coming in and takes its best guess based on the information which comes in as to where the trouble originated. A crew is then dispatched directly to the outage. This is another reason why it is so important to call in any outage — the more information that comes in, the better information the computer has, and the faster a crew can get where it needs to go.
- Outages & Emergencies
The electric outage map is a window into seeing the types of outages our crews are already aware of, and it is based on the information relayed from our Customer Service team. While small delays in updates to the map are always possible, if your outage isn’t on the map, it may not have been reported yet. Always report your outage online or call Customer Service at 1-888-301-7700 if you lose power to ensure your issue is in the system.
- Outages & Emergencies
After logging into the MyUnitil mobile app or your MyUnitil portal, click on the "Profile" tab located in the main menu. Then, select the "Accounts List" tab located at the top of the page.
To link additional accounts, add the account number and verification method.
Select "Add Account."
If the account you are looking for is not listed, please call 1-888-301-7700 and our Customer Service team will assist you.
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