RICHMOND (AP) -- More than 400,000 Dominion Virginia Power customers in Virginia remain without electricity in the wake of Hurricane Irene.
Dominion says it hopes to restore power to nearly all customers by the end of the day Friday.
According to the Dominion Power outage Website, as of 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, 389,144 customers had no electricity. More than half are in the Richmond metropolitan area.
Dominion Power had 42,000 customers in North Carolina without electricity early Tuesday.
Progress Energy reported about 48,000 customers were still without electricity early Tuesday, compared with a peak of 288,000 outages at the storm's height. The Raleigh-based utility said 99 percent of its customers who lost power should be back on line by midnight Wednesday.
North Carolina's electric cooperatives and municipal power agencies haven't updated their progress Tuesday. The electric cooperatives on Monday reported 63,000 outages, while cities and towns reported 45,000 customers with no power.
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