Outage knocks out power for hundreds in SLO. When will electricity be back on?

Hundreds of people were without power in San Luis Obispo early Wednesday morning after an unplanned outage knocked out electricity for a large portion of the city.

According to PG&E's outage map , 928 customers in the area along South Higuera Street between Elks Lane and Tank Farm Road were without power as of 1:20 a.m.

PG&E said crews were "evaluating the electrical system to identify damaged sections and make necessary repairs in order to safely turn the power back on."

According to the map, there was no estimated time for when power might be back on.

Power Outages in San Luis Obispo County and California

This map shows current California power outages and is automatically updated every 15 minutes. It shows the total number of customers impacted by county (in black), the general location of the outages with red (not planned) and orange (planned) circles, and more detailed power outage areas from PG&E when zoomed into the map (other utilities are not available for power outage areas). Tap on the locations for the number of customers affected and estimated power restoration in the left-hand column.

SOURCES: California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas and Electric, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Los Angeles Water & Power, ESRI