Central Maine Power aims for full power restoration by Saturday end - WGME
Central Maine Power aims for full power restoration by Saturday end | WGME
Central Maine Power says on their website that as of 9 a.m. on Saturday, December 23rd, 98% of power restoration is complete after Monday's storm.
CMP says they will complete power restoration efforts on Saturday. Estimated restoration times have been established for all remaining customers as well.
Safety is top of mind for CMP and they're reminding drivers to slow down and move over to provide crews room to complete repairs.
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As of 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, there are 6,185 customers without power. 3,912 of those are in Kennebec County and 1,058 are in Somerset County.
Spokesperson for CMP, Jon Breed, says they remain confident that the vast majority of customers will have power back on by Saturday night. He says they're working on the hardest hit communities on Saturday and would describe crew activities as "rebuilding rather than restoring."
Breed also says that the system may show some lingering outages after today and that those outages are hard-to-reach areas, like seasonal camps owners have closed for the year.
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