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Power restored after brief outage in Paso Robles area

Posted at 7:06 PM, Dec 27, 2018
and last updated 2018-12-27 22:07:03-05

UPDATE (7:06 p.m.) – According to PG&E’s power outage map, power is now restored for all customers impacted by an outage in Paso Robles.

The outage originally affected more than 7800 customers.

It was restored to all but about 150 customers within roughly 15 minutes, however, all power has since been restored.


(ORIGINAL STORY) – A brief power outage impacted thousands of PG&E customers Thursday evening.

The outage was first reported around 5:50 p.m. and lasted roughly 15 minutes.

The outage impacted the downtown area and spanned all the way to Lake Nacimiento.

Paso Robles power outage 12-27
The PG&E Outage Map highlights the area impacted by a power outage on December 27

 

At one point, PG&E’s outage map reported 7,879 customers were affected.

As of the last update, PG&E’s outage map listed several smaller outages impacting 151 customers.

Power is expected to be restored between 9:45 and 10 p.m.

The cause of the outage is under investigation. PG&E says a crew was assigned to assess what happened.