You can click here to report a power outage if you are a ConEd customer, which will sign you up automatically for restoration updates, to be received via text or phone call. You can also text ...

according to the report, none of the staff at the plant at the time of the outage knew how to operate the backup generators. They also did not know how to manually transfer power to the second feed.

While power was back on for many, there were still hundreds of customers without it in the Twin Cities area as of Thursday afternoon, according to Xcel Energy's online outage map. With spring ...