Foggy Bottom power outage: Pepco reports supply restored
Pepco says power has been restored to all customers impacted by the Foggy Bottom outage following an incident at its I Street Substation in Washington, DC. Its direct update on 2 November 2026 labels the restoration report “as of 2 pm”. The cause remains under investigation, and the statement does not establish an exact switching time or outage duration.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: restored, according to the source · Pepco reports all customers impacted by the Foggy Bottom incident restored; the cause remains under investigation.
Source moment: Nov 2, 2026, 07:09 PM UTC (02:09 PM local time)
In 20 seconds
Pepco reports restoration to all customers impacted by the named Foggy Bottom incident.
Earlier reports relayed approximately 1,100 and 1,176 affected customers; these are historical snapshots.
Exact onset, switching time and duration remain unknown; the cause is under investigation.
Pepco updates its I Street Substation report
Pepco’s initial post was published at 17:53:30 UTC on 2 November and described a Foggy Bottom outage following an incident at I Street Substation. A direct reply published at 19:09:17 UTC states that all power to impacted customers has been restored. The reply itself describes the update as of 2 pm, without explicitly naming a timezone. That wording is retained without treating it as an independently verified switching time.
The restoration statement concerns customers impacted by this incident. It does not establish a citywide outage or confirm the electricity status of every address in Washington, DC. The available operator account leaves the cause under investigation. No confirmed explosion, cyberattack or other specific mechanism is established by the controlled facts used for this report.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Named area
- Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC; incident at I Street Substation
- Operator report
- Pepco reports all impacted customers restored; cause under investigation
- Latest source update
- Restoration reply published 2 November 2026, 19:09:17 UTC; labelled as of 2 pm, timezone unstated
Earlier customer counts describe earlier snapshots
Local publication PoPville relays an earlier Pepco estimate of approximately 1,100 affected customers and an AlertDC snapshot of 1,176. Those figures refer to earlier accounts of the interruption. They have not been independently reconciled and should not be added together, converted into people or presented as customers still without power after Pepco’s restoration update.
The local report relays utility information for these claims, so it is not an independent customer-count verification. The precise onset, interruption duration and exact switching time remain unknown. Pepco’s restoration report is the latest supported status in the scanner record; it is a scoped operator statement rather than an independent address-level audit. No original incident photograph has been authenticated and cleared for reuse.
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