Factbox-Hurricane Debby cuts power for 275,000 Florida customers

(Reuters) -More than 275,000 homes and businesses in Florida were left without electricity as Hurricane Debby slammed into the state's Gulf Coast on Monday morning, according to data from PowerOutage.us.

The utility with the most customers hit was Duke Energy, which had about 89,000 clients without power and said 3,000 out-of-state crews were assisting its Florida team with outage restoration.

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

It was followed by Clay Electric Coop, with 36,300 customers cut off in the state.

Here are the major outages by utility in Florida:

Power Companies Outages

Duke Energy

89,620

Clay Electric Coop

36,300

Florida Power & Light

Company 34,660

Suwannee Valley Electric

Cooperative 27,510

Tri-County Electric Coop

19,408

Talquin Electric

Cooperative 19,334

Central Florida Electric

Cooperative 19,298

JEA

14,052

City of Tallahassee 7,786

Withlacoochee River 2,891

Electric Coop

Total Out

270,859

(Reporting by Sherin Elizabeth Varghese and Anjana Anil in Bengaluru;Editing by Helen Popper and Aurora Ellis)