Power restored to western Minnesotans after early morning outage in ‘frigid’ temperatures

Power has been restored to around 2,300 Minnesotans after a temporary outage Monday morning.

Runestone Electric Association posted around 5 a.m. that it was experiencing a large transmission outage. Luckily, it updated customers shortly after that power had been restored.

“We apologize for this inconvenience on this frigid morning. Know that our crews are doing all they can to get the power restarted,” the association shared.

A power outage tracker showed over 2,500 outages for Runestone Electric customers. However, a spokesperson for REA told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS the estimate was closer to 2,300.

The spokesperson added that power was out for around 2.5 hours.

If you are an REA customer and still experiencing an outage, call 1-800-473-1722.