(Reuters) – More than 235,000 homes 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 which had about 97,836 clients without power and said 3,000 out-of-state crews were assisting its Florida team with outage restoration.
It was followed by Florida Power & Light Company, with 30,198 customers cut off in the state.
Here are the major outages by utility in Florida:
Power Companies Outages
Duke Energy 97,836
Florida Power & Light Company 30,198
Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative 26,956
Central Florida Electric Cooperative 20,727
Tri-County Electric Coop 19,162
City of Tallahassee 12,637
Clay Electric Coop 10,667
JEA 9,915
Tampa Electric 7,283
Total Out 235,381
(Reporting by Sherin Elizabeth Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Helen Popper)
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