Extreme weather conditions left more than 485,000 homes and businesses across the United States without electricity as of late Sunday, according to figures from PowerOutage.us.
Michigan took the biggest hit of any state, with approximately 100,378 customers losing power — about 2% of the state’s 5.1 million total customers. One utility unit under DTE Energy in Michigan accounted for roughly 82,472 of those outages on its own.
DTE Energy posted an update on its website saying, “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.”
Pennsylvania ranked second among all states for outages, with around 95,732 customers left in the dark. A unit of PPL Electric Utilities was responsible for roughly 65,401 of those customers — approximately 3.3% of its Pennsylvania customer base.
PPL Electric Utilities noted on its website that “Crews restored power to more than 196,000 customers since Friday.”
New York-based energy provider Con Edison reported Sunday that it had brought power back to more than 166,800 of the roughly 173,700 customers affected by the severe weather. The company said the Westchester County communities of Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Rye, and New Rochelle — located north of New York City — experienced the highest concentration of storm-related outages. Con Edison expects 95% of its affected Westchester customers to be back online by Monday at 7 p.m. EDT, following storms that struck on July 4.
Maryland also appeared among the eight states with the highest outage counts, with nearly 29,854 customers without power. Here is a breakdown of the eight states with the most 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
