New Year’s Day power outage affected several hundred Citizens Electric members

PERRYVILLE — Power was restored to several hundred Citizens Electric Corporation members Sunday afternoon following an outage that the utility said began at 12:53 p.m. affecting southern Perry County and the most northern part of Cape Girardeau County.

 

Crews were  dispatched to investigate the cause and restore power.

 

By 3 p.m. those crews had successfully restored the outage.

 

“We appreciate your patience!” CEC posted on its Facebook page.

 

There was no cause given for the outage.