More than 5,000 SLO County residents lose power in outage
Thousands of PG&E customers lost power on Friday evening in a large outage that affected a big chunk of rural North County residents.
More than 5,500 customers east of Santa Margarita, Atascadero and Templeton saw their electricity go out starting at 4 p.m., according to PG&E’s power outage map.
The company had restored power to about 1,100 customers by 5:30 p.m., although more than 4,300 were still without electricity.
PG&E expected to restore all affected customers’ power by 10:30 p.m.
The utility company was investigating the cause of the outage.
For more information, visit PG&E’s website at pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outagecenter.
This story was originally published November 5, 2021 at 5:36 PM.
Lindsey Holden
The Tribune