May 5th – 9th, 2025 – Aeolus Power Outage

Additional information about the power outage can be found here.

Given that this power outage will be more work for us than usual, and also having less staff on site that week than usual, the Aeolus maintenance period will be longer than the last outage, unfortunately. Timeline:

5/4 @ 2100: job hold begins
5/5 @ 1200: hardware/software maintenance begins
5/5 @ 1800: hardware shutdown begins
5/6: finalize upgrades and shut everything else down by 2200
5/7: VCEA staff are focused on prep for the main outage
5/8: VCEA staff work on recovering from the outage. Possible Aeolus will be back up by the end of 5/8
5/9 @ 1700: maintenance period ends. If we finish early because recovery goes well on 5/8 we will send an email out early announcing end of maintenance