PEORIA ( 25News Now ) - A handful remain without power in north Peoria in a mid-day outage Wednesday.

What peaked at over 2,700 customers without power concentrated in the Alta area is now down to just a handful, according to the Ameren Outage Map.

In an email, Ameren Illinois said the company became aware of the outage just before 11 a.m. The company later blamed the outage on a malfunctioning fuse at a local substation.

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