(Reuters) -More than 179,000 homes and businesses in Florida were still without power Monday evening after Hurricane Debby slammed into the state’s Gulf Coast earlier in the day, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
The utility with the most customers hit was Duke Energy, which had about 50,000 clients still without power. It said 3,000 out-of-state crews were assisting its Florida team with outage restoration.
The company said that nearly 171,000 customers have been restored so far.
It was followed by Clay Electric Coop, with 29,214 customers cut off in the state.
Here are the major outages by utility in Florida:
Power Companies Outages
Duke Energy
49,864
Clay Electric Coop
29,214
Suwannee Valley Electric
Cooperative 27,733
Florida Power & Light
Company 20,887
Tri-County Electric Coop
15,644
Central Florida Electric
Cooperative 15,111
Talquin Electric 9,216
Cooperative
City of Tallahassee 2,840
JEA 2,403
Tampa Electric 2,021
Gainesville Regional 1,334
Utilities
Ocala Electric Utility 1,135
Total Out
176,502
(Reporting by Sherin Elizabeth Varghese, Anjana Anil and Anmol Choubey in Bengaluru;Editing by Helen Popper, Aurora Ellis and Leslie Adler)
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