Transmission line problems blamed for Monday outage

Osgood, In. — Officials from Southeastern Indiana REMC say a transmission interruption from their supplier, Hoosier Energy caused an outage Monday for more than 16,000 customers in Dearborn, Ripley, Franklin, Ohio and Switzerland Counties. Most power was restored by 10:30 a.m.

A transmission line problem put Duke Energy customers in the dark for the second time in as many weeks Monday. The outages were reported in Greendale and Lawrenceburg.