Unitil, PSNH Restoring Power Around New Hampshire

Updated, 11:32 p.m. PSNH is reporting more than 3,600 customers without power including outages in Henniker, Fremont, Raymond, Windham, and Hudson. Unitil, meanwhile, has a little more than 100 customers without power.

Updated, 10:05 p.m. Until is reporting more than 700 customers still without power including 130 in Concord, more than 200 in both Atkinson and Danville, and scattered outages in Chichester, Exeter, Hampton Falls, Kingston, Plaistow, and Salisbury. PSNH has restored power to about 8,000 people during the last hour or so. Henniker is still reporting more than 1,100 without power. Hundreds of customers are still without power in Hooksett, Londonderry, Wyndham, Hudson, Fremont, Raymond, and Nashua.

Updated, 9:01 p.m. PSNH’s outage numbers have dropped back down to about 13,400 in the state. Most of Derry has been restored and Nashua is down to about 500 customers. All of Milford is also back online. Until is reporting about 1,300 without power.

Updated, 8:36 p.m. Until has restored power to most of Exeter and Kensington, according to the online outage list. PSNH is now reporting nearly 18,000 without power around New Hampshire.

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More than 16,000 customers across New Hampshire are without power at this hour due to power lines knocked down by wind gusts of up to 45 mph in some parts of the Granite State.

PSNH/Eversource is reporting more than 14,000 without power as of 8 p.m. on March 17, 2015, with Unitil reporting more than 2,700 customers without power. Liberty Utilities is reporting just a few outages.

As of post time, there are varied restoration times for the outages. Unitil is reporting that it is “assessing” restoration for its customers.

In the central part of the state, nearly 2,000 customers in the capital region are without power with outages also reported in Boscawen, Bow, Canterbury, Henniker, Hooksett, Hopkinton, Pembroke, and Salisbury.

In the southwestern part of the state, more than 1,700 customers are without power in Merrimack and more than 1,100 in Nashua. Nine hundred customers are without power in Litchfield. Scattered outages are also being reported Amherst, Bedford, Goffstown, Milford, and New Boston.

About 260 PSNH customers in Windham and 100 in Londonderry are without power at this hour. Another 1,100 are without power in Derry, according to PSNH.

On the Seacoast, Unitil is reporting more than 400 customers without power in Exeter, as well as scattered outages in other Unitil towns like Atkinson, Danville, Kingston, and Plaistow. Nearly 2,000 PSNH customers in surrounding communities like Brentwood, Fremont, Hampstead, and Stratham are also without power.

Hampton and South Hampton are reporting about 100 customers without power while Portsmouth is reporting about 30 without power.

NH Patch will update this post with more information about the power outages when it becomes available.