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.
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
A power outage cut electricity for more than 1,400 PG&E customers in northeastern San Luis Obispo County and southern Monterey County for several hours Tuesday morning.
The outage affected customers in rural areas east of Paso Robles.
According to the PG&E outage center, 1,411 customers lost power around 6:30 a.m. The outage area stretched across both sides of Highway 46 East from Estrella Road to the Highway 41 interchange near Shandon, the PG&E outage map showed. Areas of both sides of Highway 46 and 41 were affected, the map showed.
The same power outage also affected southern Monterey County in a rural area south of Coalinga, the map showed.
Power had been restored by around 10 a.m.
The cause for the outage was unknown at this time.
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.
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 May 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM.
