MARQUETTE– The Marquette Board of Light and Power had 2,839 customers lose power Thursday morning. It was unclear what caused the outage.

“It does look like we have an outage, just under 3,000 people are affected,” said a service representative from the Marquette Board of Light and Power. “Crews have been sent to investigate and restore power.”

Around 16% of MBLP’s customers were without power. This is the second time in two months the electric utility company has seen a power outage. The last being on Sept. 15, which saw 2,236 people without power.

The report comes from Find Energy & Power Outage Data, and its website can be found at https://findenergy.com/.

Antonio Anderson can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 550. His email address is aanderson@miningjournal.net.