(Reuters) -More than 275,000 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 89,000 clients without power and said 3,000 out-of-state crews were assisting its Florida team with outage restoration.
The company also said that nearly 171,000 customers have been restored so far.
It was followed by Clay Electric Coop, with 36,300 customers cut off in the state.
Here are the major outages by utility in Florida:
Power Companies Outages
Duke Energy
89,620
Clay Electric Coop
36,300
Florida Power & Light
Company 34,660
Suwannee Valley Electric
Cooperative 27,510
Tri-County Electric Coop
19,408
Talquin Electric
Cooperative 19,334
Central Florida Electric
Cooperative 19,298
JEA
14,052
City of Tallahassee 7,786
Withlacoochee River 2,891
Electric Coop
Total Out
270,859
(Reporting by Sherin Elizabeth Varghese and Anjana Anil in Bengaluru;Editing by Helen Popper and Aurora Ellis)
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