{"id":199626,"date":"2025-11-18T12:44:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=199626"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:01:57","slug":"outage-affects-4300-aep-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/11\/18\/outage-affects-4300-aep-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Outage affects 4,300+ AEP customers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A power outage affected a sizable area of Van Wert on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to AEP Ohio, the outage occurred at approximately 11:15 a.m. More than 4,300 AEP Ohio customers in the Van Wert area lost power for two hours. The lights came back on at 1:15 p.m., according to an AEP Ohio spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause was blamed on equipment failure and the spokesperson said an investigation is underway for more specific information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff A power outage affected a sizable area of Van Wert on Tuesday. According to AEP Ohio, the outage occurred at approximately 11:15 a.m. More than 4,300 AEP Ohio customers in the Van Wert area lost power for two hours. The lights came back on at 1:15 p.m., according to an AEP Ohio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 13:36:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199642,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199626\/revisions\/199642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}