Thousands of SMUD customers lose power briefly in south Sacramento, cause not yet clear

Over 13,500 Sacramento Municipal Utility District customers briefly lost power Friday afternoon, primarily in the south Sacramento area.

SMUD reported the outage at 12:59 p.m. Friday. The website said 13,533 homes and businesses were affected, primarily in the area east of Sacramento Executive Airport.

Power returned to most customers around 2 p.m. Friday. As of 2:05 p.m., just over 1,000 customers remained without power in the area.

SMUD did not immediately respond to calls about the outage. SMUD’s incident website reported that the company was “assessing the outage” Friday afternoon.

On Thursday, a vehicle crash caused a large outage in the Elk Grove area, but no crashes have been reported in the south Sacramento area Friday afternoon.

This story was originally published August 13, 2021 at 1:26 PM.