More than 400 customers in southern Coronado and the Coronado Cays lost power Tuesday night after an unplanned power outage, leaving homes and businesses in the dark starting around 7:11 p.m.
San Diego Gas & Electric said the outage was caused by damage to its equipment, and the City of Coronado said the utility was on site as crews worked through the night. Power was expected to be restored around 6 a.m. Wednesday, a timetable that gave residents and businesses in the affected area an overnight wait for service to return.
The outage hit the southern part of Coronado and the Coronado Cays, a localized disruption but one that reached hundreds of customers at the start of the evening. Because the cause was tied to utility equipment, the work to restore service depended on repairs rather than a planned shutdown.
That distinction matters because this was not scheduled maintenance and not a weather-driven cutoff. It was an unplanned equipment failure that forced a late-night response and left the question of when lights would come back on answered, at least provisionally, by the utility’s early Wednesday estimate.
For the people in those neighborhoods, the immediate issue was simple: whether power would be back by daybreak. San Diego Gas & Electric said it was aiming for around 6 a.m. Wednesday, which meant the outage was expected to last through the night before service returned.
