Power outage hits northwest Las Vegas

Las Vegas Athletic Club members were evacuated after a power outage in the northwest Las Vegas Valley on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (Daniel Jacobi/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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About 13,000 NV Energy customers were without power in the northwest Las Vegas Valley on Saturday morning.

The outage began shortly after 10:20 a.m. and was centered near Lake Mead and Rainbow boulevards.

The cause of the outage is a substation transformer problem, according to NV Energy’s website.

At 3:51 p.m., about 3,400 customers were being affected by the outage.

By 8:30 p.m., the number of customers impacted by the power outage in Clark County shrunk to 54, according to NV Energy’s website.

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