BAKERSFIELD, CA. (KERO) — UPDATE: More than 7-thousand customers are now impacted and the outage is expected to last until 11:30 pm.
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A power outage in Southwest Bakersfield is impacting thousands of customers.

According to the PG&E Outage Map, more than 8-thousand customers are affected.

The outage started at 5:42 pm on Tuesday and has an estimated restoration time of 9:30 pm.

No word on what caused the outage.

You can keep track of the outage on this map.