(Reuters) -Over 1.1 million properties and companies had been nonetheless with out energy within the U.S. Southeast and Midwest on Wednesday after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle as a significant hurricane on Sept. 26, based on information from PowerOutage.us.
These outages had been down from round 1.7 million on Tuesday as utilities continued to revive energy. In whole, the storm knocked out service to round 5.5 million prospects, predominantly within the Southeast.
Helene’s winds, rain and storm surge killed greater than 160 folks.
The utility with probably the most outages was U.S. vitality firm Duke Vitality (NYSE:) within the Carolinas with about 287,732 prospects nonetheless out in South Carolina and 234,375 nonetheless out in North Carolina, based on PowerOutage.us.
Duke stated on Tuesday it had restored energy to round 1.6 million prospects within the Carolinas and anticipated to revive the vast majority of remaining outages by Friday night time.
Listed below are the most important outages by state:
State Outages
South Carolina 434,456
Georgia 320,190
North Carolina 317,551
Virginia 30,238
Florida 29,765
West Virginia 7,163
Whole Out 1,103,292
