Power restored to over 2,700 in southeast Colorado Springs

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) -

UPDATE (10/2): All power has been restored to customers. Colorado Springs Utilities said this was caused by equipment failure.

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PREVIOUS (10/1, 8:25 p.m.): Over 800 people are without power in southeast Colorado Springs. This came after an outage left over 2,700 people without power.

The cause of that outage is still unknown. It’s not yet known if the two are related.

Colorado Springs Utilities reported the outage on their website Saturday evening.

The outage was reported at 7:57 p.m. and impacts 2,714 customers, according to CSU. It lasted around an hour, with power being restored to the area around 9 p.m.

CSU said that after power was restored to the majority of people, around 100 were still without power. They said they estimate service to be restored within three hours.

Soon after this update was posted, the outage map on the CSU website showed over 800 still without power.

The cause of the outage is unknown and under investigation.

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