Alliance was without electricity for about an hour and 45 minutes Tuesday.

Alliance City Manager J.D. Cox says the outage occurred at 11:43 a.m.,  and was triggered by a problem at the WAPA — Western Area Power Administration — substation about a mile west of Alliance on 10th Street.

Cox says that the city received permission from WAPA to send its electric crews onto the WAPA substation site to make repairs a little before 12:30 p.m., and they identified the problem and made the repairs in less than an hour.

Cox says had the city not received permission from WAPA officials to enter their property, the outage would have lasted much longer.

KCOW and Double Q Country Radio were knocked off the air.

KCOW-AM had been able to remain on the air in past outages by using an emergency generator at its studios in Alliance, but the station is in the midst of a building construction and equipment upgrade that have taken that generator off-line.

The transmitters for Double Q Country 105.9 and 97.5 were both still operational, but the programming signal is sent to each transmitter site by microwave and the outage has knocked out those systems.

Alliance’s Cody Substation is in the midst of a rebuild and was off line and unable to run the generation system that would have provided electricity to portions of West Third Street and downtown Alliance.