Nearly 2,000 lose electricity in pair of SLO County power outages
Nearly 2,000 PG&E customers in San Luis Obispo County lost power Tuesday morning in two separate locations.
According to PG&E’s Outage Center, at around 9:59 a.m. 1,721 customers lost power in Atascadero, with most of the outage falling on the western side of Highway 101 north of Highway 41.
Power was restored by 1 p.m.
The cause of the outage was unknown as of early Tuesday morning, though PG&E initially anticipated power coming back online around 5 p.m., according to the Outage Center.
Further south, 218 customers in the Lopez Lake area east of Arroyo Grande were without power since 11:30 p.m. Monday, according to the Outage Center.
PG&E had not determined the cause of the outage, but power was back on by midday as well, according to the Outage Center.
This story was originally published July 30, 2024 at 11:08 AM.
