In the US, up to 10-million in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas without power
New York — About 5-million US customers, or about 10-million people, were without power on Wednesday morning in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas after Hurricane Irma, down from a peak of over 7.8-million customers on Monday, local utilities said. Most of the remaining outages were in Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) service area in the southern and eastern parts of the state. FPL, the state’s biggest power company, said about 2.5-million had no power on Wednesday morning, down from a peak of more than 3.6-million on Monday. NextEra Energy-owned FPL, which serves nearly 5-million homes and businesses, expects to restore essentially all of its customers in the eastern portion of Florida by the weekend and the harder hit western portion of the state by September 22. It will take longer to restore those with hurricane damage or severe flooding, FPL said. Outages at Duke Energy, which serves the northern and central parts of Florida, fell to 925,000 by Wednesday morning, down from a peak ...
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