AEP has confirmed that power has been restored to over 1,700 customers on the city's South side.
AEP representative Frank Espinosa told us the cluster of outages happened at about 8 p.m. in the neighborhoods around the the intersection of Staples and Oso Parkway, referred to as the Country Creek subduction area.
There was a total of 1,900 customers without power. Most of the power was restored by about 10 p.m.. AEP crews were still working on restoring the remaining 152 customers at about 10:30 p.m..
The outage was said to be caused by equipment failure,
