ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Around 36,000 Duke Energy electricity customers in Pinellas County lost power on Tuesday.
Three of the company’s substations in Pinellas County experienced problems, according to Duke Energy spokeswoman Ana Gibbs. It’s unclear what those problems were and Duke is still investigating the cause.
A large chunk of the city of St. Petersburg was without electricity.
According to a news release electricity had been restored to all customers by early afternoon.
Pinellas County is on Florida’s Gulf Coast, near Tampa.
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