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More than 1,300 SLO County PG&E customers lose power in outage

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An outage cut power to more than 1,000 PG&E customers in northern San Luis Obispo County on Wednesday morning.

According to the PG&E Outage Center website, at around 7:45 a.m. an outage left 1,317 customers without electricity along Nacimiento Lake Drive between Paso Robles and the reservoir.

The cause of the outage was unknown, and PG&E dispatched teams to evaluate the electrical system, according to the Outage Center.

Power was restored by early afternoon, according to the Outage Center.

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 June 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM.

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