More than 7,900 Austin Energy customers lose power after outages

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A few northwest Austin neighborhoods were without power Wednesday afternoon, according to Austin Energy’s outage map.According to the map, the outages were happening in a portion of Austin between US-183, State Highway 45 and MoPac."An equipment issue with a transformer is causing outages in Northwest Austin," AE said.The outages initially impacted roughly 7,900 customers; however, in an update, AE said there were currently about 7,000 customers without power.As of 2: