More than 17,000 customers without power in South Lake Tahoe. Was the outage unplanned?
About 17,000 customers in the South Lake Tahoe area were without power Sunday, according to the area’s electricity provider.
The outage began at 11:38 a.m., according to Liberty Utilities.
The utility reported the cause of the outage was unknown, but it listed a planned outage for Sunday between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. for a pole placement on its website.
Liberty did not have an estimated restoration time as of 2:30 p.m.
The company was “troubleshooting” the outage, according to a post on social media.