A pair of outages knocked out power to more than 1,200 PG&E customers in northern San Luis Obispo County on Friday night.
The larger outage, located near Creston, occurred at 9:07 p.m.. and affected 903 customers around Highway 58 and La Panza Road, according to PG&E’s outage map.
PG&E dispatched a crew to work on the outage and said power would be restored by 5:45 a.m. Saturday.
The second outage occured at 9:05 p.m. in Templeton and affected 338 customers. Power was expected to be restored there by 12:30 a.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.
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 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM.
Joe Tarica is the editor of The Tribune in San Luis Obispo. He’s worked in various newsroom roles since 1993, including as an award-winning copy editor, designer and columnist. A California native, he has been a resident of San Luis Obispo County for more than 35 years and is a Cal Poly graduate.
