Hurricane Debby cuts power for 275,000 Florida customers
Adds latest number of customers out, Duke Energy statement
Aug 5 (Reuters) -More than 275,000homes and businesses in Florida were left without electricity as Hurricane Debby slammed into the state's Gulf Coast on Monday morning, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
The utility with the most customers hit was Duke Energy DUK.N, which had about 89,000clients without power and said 3,000 out-of-state crews were assisting its Florida team with outage restoration.
The company also said that nearly 171,000 customers have been restored so far.
It was followed by Clay Electric Coop, with 36,300 customers cut off in the state.
Here are the major outages by utility in Florida:
Power Companies | Outages |
Duke Energy | 89,620 |
Clay Electric Coop | 36,300 |
Florida Power & Light Company | 34,660 |
Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative | 27,510 |
Tri-County Electric Coop | 19,408 |
Talquin Electric Cooperative | 19,334 |
Central Florida Electric Cooperative | 19,298 |
JEA | 14,052 |
City of Tallahassee | 7,786 |
Withlacoochee River Electric Coop | 2,891 |
Total Out | 270,859 |
Reporting by Sherin Elizabeth Varghese and Anjana Anil in Bengaluru;
Editing by Helen Popper and Aurora Ellis
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