Equipment failure knocked out power for 89 percent of Potomac Edison’s customers in Montgomery County, Maryland, Monday afternoon, the utility said.
About 41,000 customers were affected by the outage about 1:50 p.m. Monday, including 29,000 customers in Montgomery County, company spokesman Doug Colafella said.
Service was restored to about half of those customers within a couple of hours, and everyone was expected to be back in service by late afternoon.
An equipment failure at a substation knocked out a major distribution line, Colafella said.
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