Main energy outage hits Annapolis, gear failure blamed

ANNAPOLIS — An influence outage Thursday affected about 70,000 utility clients in Annapolis and Anne Arundel County in Maryland.

Annapolis officers mentioned site visitors lights throughout town had been out, inflicting site visitors snarls within the state capital.

“Power is out around the City of Annapolis. Please treat intersections as four-way stops. Use caution and be patient. Will update with information from [Baltimore Gas & Electric] as it becomes available,” town posted on its Twitter account.

Annapolis Alderman Brooks Schandelmeier mentioned the trigger was a blown transformer at a substation. 

But BGE spokesman Nick Alexopulos mentioned the trigger was “equipment failure,” not a transformer.