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NV Energy customers lose power after storms hit valley

Updated August 18, 2023 - 9:46 pm

About 2,900 NV Energy customers were without power as of 9:30 p.m. Friday after a round of monsoonal storms hit the valley.

According to the NV Energy outage website, the biggest outage was about 2,030 customers in Henderson just north of the 215 Beltway on Gibson Road. The power went out for unknown reasons around 8:10 p.m. and the estimated restoration time was 11:15 p.m.

Another large outage was about 730 customers just north of East Sahara Avenue along North 17th Street. The cause was listed as pole-mounted equipment failure.

There were seven outher outages with the largets having 38 customers without power.

Earlier in the evening, about 4,400 customers were without power in several scattered locations.

Customers are encouraged to ensure their mobile phone numbers are listed on their NV Energy account and to sign up for outage alerts through MyAccount.

Contact Marvn Clemons at mclemons@reviewjournal.com. Follow @Marv_in_Vegas on X.

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