SOUTH CAROLINA — Nearly 3,000 customers across South Carolina are without electricity as of Tuesday morning, according to outage data from PowerOutage.us.
The outage tracking website reported 2,977 homes and businesses without power statewide out of more than 3 million customers being monitored. South Carolina currently ranks seventh in the nation for the total number of outages and sixth for the percentage of customers affected.
Laurens County reported the highest number of outages with 1,129 customers without power. Calhoun County followed with 553 outages, while Richland County reported 250 customers affected. Other counties with notable outages included Williamsburg County with 231 outages and Lexington County with 182.
Among utility providers, Laurens Commission of Public Works reported the largest number of outages with 1,036 customers without service. Tri-County Electric Cooperative reported 917 outages, while Duke Energy reported 467 customers without electricity in the state.
PowerOutage.us said Laurens Commission of Public Works also had the highest percentage of customers affected statewide, with about 18.77% of its customers without power Tuesday morning.
Utility crews continue working to restore electricity across South Carolina.
