Alabama Power will announce the company’s power restoration goals later today.
At the height of the outages, Hurricane Katrina left 636,891 Alabama Power customers without power. As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, 320,089 customers were without power throughout the company’s service territory.
Outages by division are as follows:
• Birmingham: 79,313
• Tuscaloosa: 62,289
• Mobile: 173,632
• Anniston: 4,855
Restoration to 99 percent of the Montgomery and Eufaula areas has been completed.
Crews from utilities as far away as New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and Oklahoma will join Alabama Power in restoration efforts. Additional crews are limited however, as help is also needed in hard hit areas in Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida.
Katrina is the second-worst storm in the Alabama Power history in terms of outages, but company officials estimate it may be the worst in terms of damage to the company’s system.
Hurricane Ivan left more than 825,000 customers without power in September 2004. Restoration took eight days.
At the height of the outages, Hurricane Katrina left 636,891 Alabama Power customers without power. As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, 320,089 customers were without power throughout the company’s service territory.
Outages by division are as follows:
• Birmingham: 79,313
• Tuscaloosa: 62,289
• Mobile: 173,632
• Anniston: 4,855
Restoration to 99 percent of the Montgomery and Eufaula areas has been completed.
Crews from utilities as far away as New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and Oklahoma will join Alabama Power in restoration efforts. Additional crews are limited however, as help is also needed in hard hit areas in Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida.
Katrina is the second-worst storm in the Alabama Power history in terms of outages, but company officials estimate it may be the worst in terms of damage to the company’s system.
Hurricane Ivan left more than 825,000 customers without power in September 2004. Restoration took eight days.