Rocky Mountain Power

The City of Laramie is taking stock of the damage and the work still ahead after a wind storm blew through the city yesterday, knocking down power lines and trees, damaging property and causing a gas leak.

For the average residential customer using 733 kilowatt hours per month, this means you will pay about $15.36 a year less for electricity.

The plan, totaling some $3.5 billion, will involve significant upgrades to existing wind plants, construction of a 140 miles of transmission line in Wyoming and adding up to 1,100 megawatts of new wind projects -- primarily in Wyoming -- by the end of 2020.

According to Rocky Mountain Power, 7,343 customers have been affected.

Rocky Mountain Power's customer service number is (888) 221-7070.

According to Margaret Oler of the Rocky Mountain Power newsroom, the second outage affected 2,100 customers in Laramie. Oler said that Rocky Mountain Power was able to help restore power to customers at 12:36 a.m.

A major power outage affecting a good portion of the city of Laramie occurred Monday, Dec. 19 at 7:20 p.m.

Over the course of the next couple of weeks you might notice a little extra air traffic around the regions power lines

In addition to the three Laramie firefighters, three Laramie police officers responded along with one Cowboy Aviation employee and one Albany County Central volunteer arrived in a personal vehicle.

The thunderstorm that rolled through Laramie about 6:20 p.m. led to a power outage for 685 customers of Rocky Mountain Power.

“It’s a good reminder to all of us that we should have emergency supplies ready in the event of an outage any time of year,” says Oler.

According to Rocky Mountain Power, a crew was on site as of 10:30 p.m. and power was set to be restored by 12:30 a.m.