Dive Brief:
- Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms on Sunday have left many thousands without power across the Midwest. Utilities in the region are working to restore power to those affected.
- There were still over 505,000 customers without power in Michigan as of 11 a.m. Monday morning, according to a report. At peak, there were 140,000 without power in Ameren Illinois' territory and 79,000 without power in Commonwealth Edison's territory, according to another report. And as of early Monday morning, there were over 71,000 without power in Ohio, according to yet another report.
Dive Insight:
The full number of customers affected by outages is unclear, but it appears multiple hundreds of thousands were powerless after the storms struck. Tornado season is supposed to be over but a rare and unexpected rash of extreme weather left utilities scrambling to restore power to customers in their service territories.