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Peco working to fix Center City outages

Peco Energy Co. says it working to locate and repair an underground electrical fault in Center City that has caused recurring outages for 435 customers during the last two weeks, most recently Monday night.

Peco Energy Co. says it working to locate and repair an underground electrical fault in Center City that has caused recurring outages for 435 customers during the last two weeks, most recently Monday night.

A faulty underground high-voltage cable is suspected to have caused the outages, which affected customers between 15th and Spruce Streets and the 200 block of Juniper Street, said Peco spokesman Ben Armstrong. He said outages have been recorded on four days.

Peco's efforts to fix the problem did not address the root cause of the fault. "When the equipment is located underground it is harder to identify where the damage has occured," he said.

"We have crews on the scene trying to identify the problem," he said.