Fri. Jan 23rd, 2026

 

Hundreds Affected by Early-Morning Power Failure Near Eldon

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Possible downed power lines may have been the cause as hundreds in the area between Eldon and Barnett likely woke up to no power on Friday (Jan. 23).

Ameren-Missouri reports that the outage started at 5:51-AM and had an estimated restoral time of around 10:30-AM.

The outage affected 425 customers.

As of 11AM across the lake, there were still intermittent power issues….residents in Barnett are still having service issues with Ameren. Also COMO Electric was reporting a handful of outages across Benton and Morgan Counties. There were no outages reported by Evergy.

 

Outage Maps:

Ameren: https://outagemap.ameren.com/

Evergy: https://outagemap.evergy.com/

CO-OPS: https://www.amec.org/statewide-outage-map

 

 

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Reporter Mike Anthony