Duke says Columbus, Brown County customers now have power

Duke Energy is reporting this morning that all of its customers in the Columbus area and Brown County have had their power restored.

Company officials had hoped to have power restored by this morning for the remaining Columbus customers still affected by this week’s ice storm.

About 443 customers in Bartholomew and Brown counties were still waiting Friday to have power restored, said Chip Orben, Duke Energy government and community relations manager. That was down from about 1,500 outages in Columbus earlier Friday.

An additional 84 customers in Brown County were still without power Friday morning.