Versant quickly restored power to the thousands impacted by quick outage
Nov 26, 2025
HANCOCK COUNTY—Approximately 19,000 Versant customers in Hancock County lost their power for a few minutes on Wednesday afternoon.
“It was just a little issue with a transmission line, but we got it back up and going within just a few minutes,” Emily Tadlock, a communications specialist with Versant Power. “All has been restored now.”
Customers throughout Mount Desert Island region lost power, leaving many wondering about the cause of the outage.
“We had around 19,000 customers out for five minutes,” Tadlock said. “These customers included some of the Ellsworth area and the entirety of Mount Desert Island.”
She said that the tripped transmission line is currently under investigation.
Versant serves approximately 165,000 customers in Maine. The outage represented almost 12% of those homes, businesses, and non-profit agencies.
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