Large SMUD power outage restored in Arden area
SACRAMENTO – An unplanned outage had more than 16,000 SMUD customers in the Arden area without power on Monday.
Just before 4 p.m. on Monday, SMUD announced that power had been restored.
UPDATE: Power has been restored. Thanks so much for your patience, and thank you to our amazing crews who worked so hard to safely and quickly restore power. https://t.co/zFV28kLtFw
— SMUD (@SMUDUpdates) September 5, 2022
While officials have warned of rolling blackouts as power demand spikes in California amid extreme heat, SMDU said the outage was unplanned.
According to SMUD's outage map, a total of 16,178 customers were in the dark.
The outage was caused by a tree hitting SMUD's power lines.
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