June 24, 2025 – Cleveland – Early this morning a battery at Cleveland Public Power’s Lake Road substation overheated causing a fire. CPP de-energized the substation at 3:56 a.m. to ensure safety of personnel and protect the substation equipment.
After receiving clearance from Cleveland Fire, CPP is assessing the damage and identifying emergency repairs to get the substation back on line safely.
At this time, we do not have a timeline for the repairs and bringing the substation back online. This outage affects a large portion of CPP’s downtown and near east side customers including but not limited to:
- Police HQ
- Public Auditorium
- Lexington Village
- Manufacturing on Marquette
- Case Western East Blvd. Garage
- Glenville Plaza
- Kirtland
- Cleveland Thermal
- Gillespie East
- Convention Center
- Kovacic NCRC
- University Circle Apts.
- Windsor Sub
- E 53rd St Sub
- East Side Market
- Brown’s Stadium
- Burke Airport
- East Bank Flats
- Science Center
- Willard Garage
- FBI Building
- Oswald Building
- RTA Station at E. 21st & Prospect
For updates, please follow CPP’s social media channels - @clepublicpower on Instagram and X or Cleveland Public Power on Facebook, and the outage map at https://www.cpp.org/Power-Outages/Report-Outage.