July 6 (Reuters) – More than 485,000 homes and businesses were without power as of late Sunday due to extreme weather conditions across several areas of the United States, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
Michigan was the hardest hit, with about 100,378 outages, roughly 2% of the state’s 5.1 million customers, according to the data.
The hardest-hit utility was a unit of DTE Energy in Michigan, where around 82,472 homes and businesses were without service.
“Our Storm Response Team is working as quickly and safely as possible to restore service and is on track to restore 95% of impacted customers by the end of day today, Monday, July 6,” DTE Energy said on its website.
Pennsylvania had the second-highest number of outages by state, with about 95,732 customers without power.
A unit of PPL Electric Utilities in Pennsylvania had around 65,401 customers without power, which is about 3.3% of its customers in the state.
“Crews restored power to more than 196,000 customers since Friday,” PPL Electric Utilities said on its website.
New York-based energy company Con Edison said on Sunday it had restored power to more than 166,800 of the approximately 173,700 customers whose service was impacted by extreme weather.
Con Edison said the cities of Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Rye and New Rochelle in Westchester County, which is north of New York City, experienced the greatest number of storm-related outages, and 95% of its Westchester customers affected by the July 4 storms are expected to be restored by Monday at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT).
Here are the eight biggest outages by state:
State Outages
Michigan 100,378
Pennsylvania 95,732
New Jersey 56,616
New York 45,863
Connecticut 32,140
Maryland 29,854
Ohio 16,553
Texas 13,977
Total 485,890
(Reporting by Pablo Sinha and Anjana Anil in Bengaluru; Editing by Tom Hogue, Sonali Paul and Sanjeev Miglani)
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