UPDATE: As of Tuesday morning, power has been restored to almost all of the homes affected.

MLGW said the outage was triggered when multiple circuit breakers were tripped at three substations.

“Our team reset the equipment and restored power for most customers within an hour and the rest of customers within two hours and 30 minutes,” said MLGW.

They said the final restoration was delayed by a failed circuit breaker, but MLGW crews were able to reroute power around the failed breaker to get customers restored by 10:45 p.m.

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UPDATE: At 10:13 p.m., MLGW provided an update regarding their efforts to restore Memphians’ power.

They said that the first 6,000 people’s power was restored within 45 minutes and the next 6,000 people’s power returned after an hour and 15 minutes.

MLGW told WREG that they are working on the remaining 8,000 customers and “will continue working until power is restored to every customer.”

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — According to the Memphis, Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) website, over 18,000 people are without power.

As of 8:45 p.m., MLGW reported that there were 254 outages around the city, leading to 18,295 people affected.

WREG has reached out to MLGW and was provided the following response:

We apologize for the inconvenience to our customers who are experiencing this latest power outage in Berclair, Orange Mound, Midtown, and the University areas.  MLGW operators are working to determine what happened so that our crews can restore power.  We will provide an update when we have more information.”

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We will update this story as more information becomes available.