Nearly 4,000 Emera Maine customers in the Blue Hill area lost power Tuesday morning after a car crashed into a utility pole.
Amanda Cummings, a spokeswoman for Emera Maine, said about 3,933 customers were affected by the outage.
The affected communities include Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Deer Isle, Little Deer Isle, Sargentville, Sedgwick, Stonington and Sunset, according to Emera Maine.
Power was expected to be restored by 4 p.m.
Maine State Police Lt. Roderick Charette said that 70-year-old Nancy Blastow of Deer Isle struck the utility pole on Snows Cove Road in Sedgwick about 10:50 a.m. after she lost control of her vehicle. She died at the scene, he said.