Power restored after outage in Tahoe area affects tens of thousands in California and Nevada
Tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the South Lake Tahoe area lost power for a few hours Monday morning, with widespread outages reported on both the California and Nevada sides of the lake.
The Liberty Utilities online outage map showed a total of 23,875 customers impacted as of 7:45 a.m. in California. Outages were reported in and near South Lake Tahoe, including Meyers and Emerald Bay; and in Alpine County, including Markleeville.
On the Nevada side, NVEnergy had reported more than 17,000 customers without power, with outages concentrated near Stateline, Minden and Gardnerville.
Essentially all power had been restored as of 10 a.m., with only about a dozen Liberty Utilities customers without power at that time.
The cause of the outages was not immediately clear.
This story was originally published November 21, 2022 at 7:58 AM.
