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Outage knocks out electricity to nearly 3,000 in SLO County. When will power be back on?

Nearly 3,000 PG&E customers lost electricity Thursday afternoon when a power outage swept across part of San Luis Obispo County.

The power outage started at about 3:40 p.m. and impacted 2,990 customers, PG&E said.

The outage struck downtown San Luis Obispo and areas along Highway 101, reaching Santa Margarita, according to the PG&E outage map.

PG&E was investigating the cause of the outage and making necessary repairs as of 4:40 p.m., the website said.

Power was expected to be restored by 9 p.m.

Power Outages in San Luis Obispo County and California

This map shows current California power outages and is automatically updated every 15 minutes. It shows the total number of customers impacted by county (in black), the general location of the outages with red (not planned) and orange (planned) circles, and more detailed power outage areas from PG&E when zoomed into the map (other utilities are not available for power outage areas). Tap on the locations for the number of customers affected and estimated power restoration in the left-hand column.

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SOURCES: California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas and Electric, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Los Angeles Water & Power, ESRI

Steve Wilson swilson@star-telegram.com

This story was originally published October 10, 2024 at 4:57 PM.

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