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Widespread power outage in South Lake Tahoe was equipment-related

South Tahoe Now · last updated

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – An early morning power outage hit a large portion of South Lake Tahoe on Saturday. Liberty, the utilities provider for the area, said the cause was a fault in the Meyers substation at 3:49 a.m. July 9. There are a total of 24,000 Liberty customers in South Lake Tahoe, and 17,723 were without power until restored at 6:48 a.m.

Meyers is the largest of two substations serving South Lake Tahoe and Meyers. All customers receiving power from that substation were affected when a faulty piece of equipment failed.

The other, smaller, substation is near Stateline.

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