Factbox-Hurricane Debby cuts power for 179,000 Florida customers

(Reuters) -More than 179,000 homes and businesses in Florida were still without power Monday evening after Hurricane Debby slammed into the state's Gulf Coast earlier in the day, according to data from PowerOutage.us.

The utility with the most customers hit was Duke Energy, which had about 50,000 clients still without power. It said 3,000 out-of-state crews were assisting its Florida team with outage restoration.

The company said that nearly 171,000 customers have been restored so far.

It was followed by Clay Electric Coop, with 29,214 customers cut off in the state.

Here are the major outages by utility in Florida:

Power Companies Outages

Duke Energy

49,864

Clay Electric Coop

29,214

Suwannee Valley Electric

Cooperative 27,733

Florida Power & Light

Company 20,887

Tri-County Electric Coop

15,644

Central Florida Electric

Cooperative 15,111

Talquin Electric 9,216

Cooperative

City of Tallahassee 2,840

JEA 2,403

Tampa Electric 2,021

Gainesville Regional 1,334

Utilities

Ocala Electric Utility 1,135

Total Out

176,502

(Reporting by Sherin Elizabeth Varghese, Anjana Anil and Anmol Choubey in Bengaluru;Editing by Helen Popper, Aurora Ellis and Leslie Adler)