Electricity restored for thousands of SLO County PG&E customers who lost power
Update, Monday: 10:15 a.m.
PG&E has restored electricity to all North County communities without power.
Update, Sunday: 1:15 p.m.
About 1,024 North County PG&E customers were still without power on Sunday afternoon as the energy company worked to restore electricity to the area.
One outage impacted 892 residents in an area near Creston, and another impacted 132 customers in the Pozo area east of Santa Margarita Lake.
PG&E originally estimated crews would resolve the outage by 12:30 p.m. Now, they estimate customers’ electricity will be restored by 2:30 p.m.
For more information, visitpgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outages/map.
Original story:
More than 2,000 North County PG&E customers lost power early Sunday in two large outages, the energy company reported.
The outages started around 6:15 a.m. and affected at least 2,625 residents east of Atascadero and Santa Margarita, near the areas of Creston and Pozo, a PG&E outage map showed.
The outage closest to Creston impacted 1,700 customers, and the Pozo-area outage impacted 925 customers.
The company is still investigating the cause of the outages. PG&E estimates crews will restore power by about 12:30 p.m.
For more information, visitpgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outages/map.
This story was originally published September 12, 2021 at 10:39 AM.
