Power

The summer of 2022 is just getting started and we're hearing early warnings that it may be a long, hot one with the risk of planned power outages across the state on days with peak energy demand.

The lights went out in Portage on Friday night, around 10-pm, putting a reported 7,000 plus customers in the dark. Consumer Energy tells WWMT that they hope to have power restored some time early after midnight Saturday morning, but as of late Friday night, the cause of the outage had yet to be determined.