160K customers without power in Southeastern US as Hurricane Isaias recovery enters third day — SkimNews
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- 160,000 customers in the Southeastern US were still without power as Hurricane Isaias recovery entered its third day
- Peak outages during the storm reached approximately 950,000 customers
- Utilities attributed the relatively contained outage count and faster restoration to grid modernization efforts that kept more customers from losing power
- FPL reported its underground lines performed eight times better than overhead lines during the storm
- Utilities said modernization efforts sped service restoration for customers who did lose power
Why it matters: Roughly 83% of the ~950,000 peak outages were restored within three days—a figure utilities will lean on to justify grid hardening budgets—while FPL's 8-to-1 underground-to-overhead performance ratio provides hard data for the increasingly political debate over burying power lines in storm-prone states.
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