Who does IPL consider “essential customers” and why do they get a high priority during service restoration?
IPL gives its highest priority to the following customers or essential services groups who provide for community health and safety. As much as possible, and depending on factors occasionally beyond IPL’s control, all receive equal priority attention: • Communications, including police radios for city, county and state; federal radio communications and broadcasting transmitters; local television and radio stations; daily newspapers. • Telephone and telegraph. • Gas supply utilities (manufacturing plants). • Hospitals (surgical) and blood banks. • Public service facilities, Red Cross, city halls, court houses, garbage disposal facilities incinerators, health departments and U.S. weather bureaus. • Designated sewage pump and disposal plants (sanitary & storm). • Water supply utilities and fire pumps. • Transportation services, including air transportation facilities, bridges (electrically operated), bus service shops, railroad shops, signal systems and water towers, and metro rail transit
