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Power outage affects more than 400 MGE customers on Madison’s east side

Channel 3000 · last updated

MADISON, Wis. — More than 400 Madison Gas and Electric customers on Madison’s east side are without power, according to outage information available Thursday night.

News 3 Now has reached out to MGE for more information about the outages but has not received a response.

The outage was first reported at 7:37 p.m. MGE estimated power would be restored by 9:45 p.m.

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