LAFAYETTE, La. - The fallout from a massive power outage in April in Bossier and Shreveport continued Monday at the Louisiana Public Service Commission meeting.

Commission members, including Foster Campbell, didn't hold back their distaste for what happened in April with close to 30,000 customers of SWEPCO losing power not once but twice.

The second outage in late April was the main point of contention because the Southwestern Power Pool or SPP ordered SWEPCO to turn off the power in what's called a "load shed." SPP officials said the customers impacted are in a pocket area that requires some local assets to keep everything up and running and that brings specific challenges.

"It requires us to really focus on maintaining the facilities that we have to meet those challenges. We primarily take measures during what we call the shoulder months, the non-peak periods of the year to perform maintenance of those transmission and generation facilities to get them in tip top shape before we go into peak periods like the summer," said Antoine Lucas, SPP executive vice president and COO.

Lucas went on to say they are focusing on ways to spread that maintenance out over a longer period of time to prevent these issues in the future. The PSC has requested an "after action report" to follow up and the commissioners also questioned officials from SWEPCO, who told them they had no choice but to turn off the power when ordered by the SPP.