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DEERFIELD, Wis. (WKOW) -- About 100 We Energies customers in Deerfield are still without power Thursday morning, after losing it overnight.

The utility company's outage map listed three outages in the Deerfield area. One outage north of town affected 60 customers. An outage in town affected 134 customers. As of 10:40 p.m. Wednesday, both of these outages had a crew assigned. We Energies estimated power would be restored by 1 a.m. Thursday.

A third outage on the south side of town affected less than five customers. A We Energies crew had not yet been assigned, as of 10:40 p.m. Wednesday.

None of the outages listed a cause. 27 News has reached out to We Energies and Dane County officials to get more information.

You can check the current outage map, HERE.

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