{"id":267794,"date":"2026-08-18T22:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267794\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T22:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:50:43","slug":"power-outages-reported-across-erie-county-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267794\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outages reported across Erie County Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"503\" height=\"326\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/wjet_erie_articles_149\/5a3a4a795546efe78c285786b97a5a07.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WJET\/WFXP)&#8211; Penelec crews are working to restore power to roughly 2,000 customers across Erie County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Penelec&#8217;s live outage map, 2,045 outages were reported as of 3:46 pm Tuesday across the county, mostly in Summit Township along with Waterford Borough and Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The map shows 664 customers in Waterford Borough are without power, and another 935 outages in the township. Summit Township had a reported 334 outages and 84 outages in McKean Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Power is estimated to be restored for residents in the red area on the map below around 5:30 pm. Crews have arrived at the scene to investigate the cause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Residents in the orange area are estimated to have their power restored around 6 pm, according to Penelec.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"503\" height=\"326\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/wjet_erie_articles_149\/5a3a4a795546efe78c285786b97a5a07.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WJET\/WFXP)&#8211; Penelec crews are working to restore power to roughly 2,000 customers across Erie County. According to Penelec&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,142,138,137,9176,9175,782],"class_list":["post-267794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-outages","tag-penelec","tag-summit-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}