An outage Thursday knocked out power to more than 1,000 Imperial Irrigation District customers in the Desert Hot Springs area.
The utility alerted the public at 6:52 a.m. Thursday that 1,014 customers in the Desert Hot Springs and Sky Valley area were without power due to an operational and supply issue due to wind.
By 9:45 a.m., nearly all power was restored to customers, but crews remained on the scene to work on restoring power to the remaining 51 customers, according to IID.
The estimated time of restoration was 18 hours for 37 customers in the area of Northwood Road and Happy Valley Drive, and up to three hours of for 14 customers in the area of Hopper and Dollar roads, IID officials said.
The IID provides electricity to more than 150,000 customers in parts of Riverside and San Diego counties, and all of Imperial County.