By Scott DiSavino
NEW YORK, March 13 (Reuters) – More than 836,000 homes and businesses were without power on Friday as severe storms battered the U.S. Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
The hardest-hit state was Ohio, with around 412,850 outages, representing about 7.6% of the state’s roughly 5.4 million customers, according to the data.
The hardest-hit utility in Ohio was a unit of FirstEnergy with around 172,850 homes and businesses in the state without service, followed by American Electric Power, with around 114,560. FirstEnergy provides service to around 6.2 million electric customers while AEP provides service to around 1.5 million electric customers in Ohio.
Here are the major outages by state:
STATE OUTAGES
Ohio 412,850
Wisconsin 75,718
Indiana 66,895
Michigan 66,824
Washington 44,045
Illinois 25,333
Pennsylvania 20,430
Virginia 31,370
TOTAL OUT 836,722
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino and Anmol Choubey; Editing by Ethan Smith)
