BATON ROUGE — Southern University announced on Friday it will hold a scheduled partial campus power outage on Saturday.

The scheduled partial campus power outage will last from 8 a.m. until approximately 5 p.m. and is part of ongoing efforts to stabilize and improve the electrical distribution system on the Baton Rouge campus.

The outage will be localized to academic buildings, the food court in the Smith-Brown Memorial Student Union, F.G. Clark Activity Center, and Bethune, Grandison, Reed, and White residence halls. Other campus facilities are not expected to be affected by this scheduled outage.

The outage is necessary to safely install and transition electrical service to rental switchgear which will provide a more reliable interim power configuration while the university continues planning for permanent improvements, officials said.

Temporary generators will provide electrical service to Bethune, Grandison, Reed, and White halls during the outage. Once installation and required safety inspections are complete, the university will coordinate with Entergy to restore service and verify power to the affected areas.

The affected areas are expected to be fully operational by Sunday, provided the installation and restoration process proceeds as planned.