160K customers without power in Southeastern US as Hurricane Isaias recovery enters third day

Utility Dive · Robert Walton · 2026-10-12 08:29 UTC

Peak outages numbered approximately 950,000. Utilities said grid modernization efforts kept more customers from losing power and sped service restoration for those who did. FPL said its underground lines performed eight times better than overhead ones.

Dive Brief:

- About 160,000 customers in Florida and Alabama remained without power Monday morning, according to data from PowerOutage.us, after Hurricane Isaias made landfall Friday night as a Category 2 storm near Destin, Florida, along the Gulf Coast.

- Peak outages numbered approximately 950,000, according to the Edison Electric Institute, a trade group for investor-owned utilities. NextEra subsidiary Florida Power & Light was hit hardest, with 435,000 customer outages. It said it expected to restore power to 85% of those customers by the end of Monday — a downward revision of the company’s initial 95% recovery estimate in that time frame.

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