FOREST ACRES, S.C. — Dominion Energy says thousands of outages reported on Thursday morning in the Forest Acres area have been fixed and power restored.
A spokesperson for the utility said that the outage was caused by equipment failure at a substation, and customers had their power back within 40 minutes.
Dominion Energy said the outage, which initially impacted around 10,000 customers according to outage maps, was first reported at 9:15 a.m. According to online outage maps, by 10 a.m., the number of customers affected had fallen to about 5,000. Between 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., many of the remaining outages on the maps appeared to have been restored.
During the outage, police in Forest Acres and Columbia worked at major intersections to direct traffic where viewers had reported the traffic lights out.