Hundreds without power in SLO, Kern counties. When will electricity be back on?
By Angel Corzo
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A power outage cut off electricity to 1,717 San Luis Obispo and Kern county PG&E customers on Saturday morning.
According to PG&E’s outage report map, customers in the Creston area and stretching along Highway 58 to Kern County lost power around 9:45 a.m.
PG&E was investigating the cause of the outage and sent an assessment crew to the outage location, according to the website.
PG&E did not yet have an expected time for when power would be back on.
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
