740K in SC still out of power after Helene. Here’s when lights could be back on for some

Nearly three quarters of a million South Carolina power customers remained in the dark Monday morning, days after powerful Hurricane Helene ripped through the state and region.

Meanwhile, one of South Carolina’s largest power providers has issued estimates as to when its customers in various counties could expect to see electricity back on.

As of 7:27 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 30, there were 748,248 customers without electricity across the Palmetto State, according to PowerOutage.us , which tracks power outages across the nation.

In the Midlands, roughly 18,000 customers remained without power in Richland County as of 7:27 a.m., while 31,000 customers in Lexington were out. Saluda had 8,817 power outages at that hour, while Newberry County has 13,000 customers without power. There were 66,000 power outages in Aiken County, as of 7:27 a.m.

The Upstate continued to deal with a plethora of outages on Monday morning, as that portion of the state was particularly hard hit by Helene.

Out of the 175,000 Spartanburg County customers tracked by PowerOutage.us, more than 160,000 were still out of power as of 7:27 a.m. Monday. Meanwhile, 200,000 power customers in Greenville County were still out as of Monday morning.

In western SC, Greenwood County remained largely in the dark on Monday morning, with more than 26,000 outages.

Among the larger power providers in SC, Dominion Energy had about 100,000 outages across its system on Monday morning, while Duke Energy had about 482,000 outages.

Dominion Energy on Sunday released estimated times of restoration of power for its customers in a number of SC counties. Those were:

*Allendale: 11 p.m. Oct. 3

*Bamberg: 11 p.m. Oct. 3

*Barnwell: 11 p.m. Oct. 2

*Beaufort: 11 p.m. Oct. 1

*Berkeley: 11 p.m. Sept. 29

*Calhoun: 11 p.m. Sept. 29

*Colleton: 11 p.m. Sept. 30

*Dorchester: 11 p.m. Sept. 29

*Fairfield: 11 p.m. Oct. 4

*Hampton: 11 p.m. Oct. 3

*Jasper: 11 p.m. Oct. 2

*Kershaw: 11 p.m. Sept. 29

*Lexington: 11 p.m. Oct. 3

*Newberry: 11 p.m. Oct. 2

*Orangeburg: 11 p.m. Sept. 29

*Richland: 11 p.m. Oct. 3

*Union: 11 p.m. Oct. 3

Dominion listed several counties simply as “damage assessment in progress,” without estimated restoration dates, as of Monday morning. Those included Abbeville, Aiken, Edgefield, Greenwood, McCormick and Saluda.