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A power outage cut off electricity to more than 500 PG&E customers in San Luis Obispo County on Monday afternoon.
According to PG&E’s outage report map, 537 customers in Atascadero lost power around 1:41 p.m. The outage primarily affected residents in between Highway 101 and Traffic Way.
The utility company said it was currently investigating the cause of the electricity outage.
A crew was en route to the outage as of 1:56 p.m., according to PG&E.
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
Hannah Poukish covers San Luis Obispo County as The Tribune’s government reporter. She previously reported and produced stories for The Sacramento Bee, CNN, Spectrum News and The Mercury News in San Jose. She graduated from Stanford University with a master’s degree in journalism.
