CMP reports power outages in Portland, Falmouth

19 Aug 2023

Local & State

Posted 1:51 PM

Updated 45 mins ago

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It was unclear Saturday afternoon what caused the outages, which affected more than 6,000 Portland customers and more than 5,000 in Falmouth.

Central Maine Power reported that thousands of customers were without power in Cumberland County on Saturday afternoon.

The two biggest areas without power are in Portland, which listed 6,236 customers without power, and in Falmouth, where 5,376 were without power as of 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

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It was unclear what caused the outages.

This story will be updated.

We are currently responding to a large outage affecting the greater Portland area today. Thank you for your patience as our crews work to resolve the issue — we will provide more information here when it becomes available.

— Central Maine Power (@cmpco) August 19, 2023

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