A planned power outage is scheduled to take place on Saturday, the WKU Planning, Design and Construction (PDC) announced in an email to faculty and staff on Thursday.

Several locations will be affected:

• Jones Jaggers Hall
• Keen Hall
• PFT Food Court

Power will be turned off at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Power at Jones Jaggers and Keen will be back on at around 3 p.m.

However, power at the PFT food court will remain off until Friday, July 19 to upgrade its “electrical service,” the email stated.

Chief Facilities Officer Bryan Russell told the Herald that the electrical service upgrade includes a new 12,470 volt system design.

This design “allows for individual switches to be activated to isolate a building or feed the primary power from another power feed,” Russell said.

The upgrade is a much more flexible and robust design, he said.

Although the PFT food court is the only building being upgraded, Jones Jaggers and Keen will be shut off because all of these buildings are interconnected through the same substation, Russell said.

“They have no way to isolate one building from the other,” he said.

According to Ben Johnson, assistant director of PDC, no other buildings will be affected by the outage.

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