{"id":371147,"date":"2026-07-13T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371147\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:24:10","slug":"power-outage-affects-thousands-in-southeast-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371147\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage affects thousands in Southeast Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 Thousands of Austin Energy customers were without power in southeast Austin early Monday, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/outagemap.austinenergy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">utility&#8217;s online outage map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The map showed seven active outages affecting 5,763 customers as of 6:32 a.m., with most affected in southeast Austin near Onion Creek Metropolitan Park.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the outages was not immediately known. CBS Austin has reached out to Austin Energy for more information.<\/p>\n<p>The outages do not appear to be connected to a <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-energy-upgrades-to-cut-power-overnight-in-downtown-west-campus-amid-heat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">planned overnight power shutdown<\/a> in downtown Austin and West Campus, which began at 11 p.m. Sunday as part of the utility&#8217;s Repowering Downtown project. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-energy-upgrades-to-cut-power-overnight-in-downtown-west-campus-amid-heat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Austin Energy upgrades to cut power overnight in downtown, West Campus amid heat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That outage, expected to last about six hours, was scheduled to upgrade grid equipment and improve long-term reliability.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Thousands of Austin Energy customers were without power in southeast Austin early Monday, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-371147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}