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MONROE — After electrical problems popped up in town last week for the third time in a two-month span, Eversource is going to be undergoing “additional work” on the town’s power infrastructure, according to media relations personnel Mitch Gross.

There were outages on March 22 and March 23, according to an Eversource report posted to the town’s Facebook page. The town said approximately 2,000 customers had some sort of power issues and 1,200 had an outage that lasted about 40 minutes.

“We clearly understand the inconveniences that those instances caused our Monroe customers and we remain committed to ensuring that we take the necessary steps to resolve them,” Gross said.

Eversource said everything required to stabilize the system was done by March 24, but the company will be replacing the two circuits that feed the substation. It is a “large project” that will take several months to finish, according to the company.

“It’s additional work to make the system more reliable, more resilient. Make it stronger,” Gross said. “We’ll do what needs to be done.”

While the town has experienced outages in recent months for an issue with a part at the substation that switches power between circuits, this was a different issue, Eversource said.

“On March 22 and 23, the switch did not fail,” Eversource said in its report. “As a result, customers did not see the on/off/on/off effect they experienced in previous events. The outages on March 22 and 23 occurred because Eversource was actively working in the area to make improvements and was…