Greater than 548,000 US prospects with out energy as winter storm freezes a lot of the US

The hardest-hit utilities included Nashville Electric Service (NES) in Tennessee, the place 143,016 of 463,455 prospects have been with out energy, and Entergy, with greater than 121,600 of three.05 million U.S. prospects affected, in response to PowerOutage.us.

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“NES teams continue to work to make repairs and restore power to customers after freezing rain and ice impacted the NES service territory and have restored power to 90,000 customers,” Nashville Electric Service stated in a publish on X late on Monday.

The storm was set to develop into the most expensive extreme climate occasion because the Los Angeles-area wildfires in early 2025, with preliminary injury and financial losses estimated at $105 billion to $115 billion, AccuWeather stated.

“Entergy Mississippi began restoring power to customers as safely and quickly as possible after the winter storm passed. Our crews, along with mutual assistance contractors, will continue working around the clock until all power is restored,” Entergy stated in a launch on Monday.

Here are the key outages by state:

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