More than 2,200 PG&E customers lose power in SLO County outage
By Stephanie Zappelli
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A power outage knocked out electricity to more than 2,200 San Luis Obispo County PG&E customers on Thursday afternoon.
According to PG&E’s outage map, 2,254 customers from Templeton to Lake Nacimiento lost power at around 4 p.m. By 5 p.m., that number was down to 1,623.
PG&E was investigating the cause of the outage. The utility company did not yet have an estimate for when power would be restored.
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 August 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM.
