LOWELL -- National Grid was reporting Tuesday night that more than nearly 3,000 homes and businesses in Lowell were without power, in an outage that appeared to be effecting the upper Merrimack Street area and parts of UMass-Lowell.
The utility's website said 2,834 structures were without power as of 7:40 p.m., and that they were expected to have power restored by 10 p.m. Another 104 homes and businesses were without power in Dracut, according to the website.
A spokesman said the outage was caused by a problem with some circuits in a substation, and that the outage lasted about a half hour.