Thousands of Central Maine Power customers in Cumberland County lost power for a few hours Saturday afternoon.
The two biggest areas that lost power were in Portland, which listed over 6,000 customers without power as of 1:30 p.m. Saturday, and in Falmouth, where more than 5,000 customers lost power.
By 4 p.m., power to all customers had been restored, CMP said.
All customers affected by today’s outage in the Portland area have been restored.
The fault occurred on a remote section of Maine’s transmission system. We were able to sectionalize the system, allowing us to restore all customers while we continue to investigate root cause.
— Central Maine Power (@cmpco) August 19, 2023
CMP spokesperson Jonathan Breed said the outage was caused by a fault in part of Maine’s transmission system.
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