Nearly 3,000 without power in Coweta

As of 5:27 p.m. Tuesday, 3,009 homes and businesses in Coweta County were without electricity, according to outage data from Find Energy.

That’s about 4.3 percent of the 69,589 customers tracked in the county, the highest number and percentage of outages in Georgia at the time.

Coweta-Fayette EMC reported nearly all of the outages, with 3,005 of its 42,671 customers without service — roughly 7 percent. Georgia Power reported four outages. Diverse Power, GreyStone Power and Newnan Utilities each reported fewer than 20 outages.

The peak outage count in the past 72 hours reached 9,761 customers, or 14 percent, earlier in the day. The cause of the outages and estimated restoration times were not immediately available.

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