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https://i-invdn-com.investing.com/news/LYNXNPEC3K0HF_M.jpgGeorgia has more than 100,000 customers without power, Connecticut more than 70,000 and Texas some 67,000.
More than a dozen other states east of the Mississippi River plus Oregon, Missouri and Louisiana each have more than 10,000 customers facing outages due to winter storms.
Leading into the holiday weekend, the impending storm is expected to bring blizzard conditions to the Great Lakes region, heavy rains followed by a flash freeze on the East Coast, wind gusts of 60 miles per hour (100 kph) and bitter cold as far south as the Mexican border.
Georgia joined North Carolina and Kentucky this week in declaring states of emergency. Temperatures in north Georgia were forecast to hit just 10 degrees Fahrenheit (-12 Celsius) with subzero wind chills.
The utility with the most outages was Georgia Power with over 80,000 customers without power. Georgia Power is a unit of U.S. energy company Southern Co (NYSE:SO).
Here are the major outages by utility:
Power Company State/Provi Out Now Customers Served
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Southern – Georgia Power GA 81,415 2,637,681
EverSource CT 78,438 1,295,134
Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) NC 30,141 3,666,438
Duke Energy SC 25,334 829,503
EverSource NH 28,000 544,929
Avangrid (NYSE:AGR) – New York State Electric and Gas NY 18,872 908,662
Entergy (NYSE:ETR) TX 18,398 489,014
CenterPoint Energy (NYSE:CNP) TX 17,744 2,615,781
Oncor TX 15,497 3,890,667
American Electric Power (NASDAQ:AEP) Texas TX 9,975 1,074,142
Total Out 323,814