UPDATE 2-More than 320,000 without power in US East after storms

Dec 21 (Reuters) - More than 320,000 homes and businesses were without power in the Eastern half of the United States on Friday after a series of snow and rain storms over the past few days, power companies said. The hardest hit states Friday morning were Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, but outages also remained in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Nebraska and Iowa from storms on Thursday. Storms knocked out power to more than 660,000 customers over the past couple of days. The following is a list of some of the regions affected by the storms.

Power Company Holding Company State Out Now Peak Out Consumers Energy CMS MI 62,700 62,700 FirstEnergy - New Jersey FirstEnergy NJ 26,500 26,500 Public Service Electric PSEG NJ 22,800 22,800

and Gas

National Grid - NY National Grid NY 13,300 13,300 Commonwealth Edison Exelon IL 12,900 12,900 AEP - Indiana Michigan AEP IN, MI 12,600 12,600 We Energies Wisconsin Energy WI 12,200 12,200 Ameren - Illinois Ameren IL 11,600 11,600 Entergy - Arkansas Entergy AR 11,000 37,100 Omaha Public Power OPPD NE 10,000 40,200

District

MidAmerican Berkshire Hathaway IA 9,200 43,300 Alliant - Wisconsin Alliant WI 8,800 8,800 AEP - SWEPCO AEP AR, LA, TX 8,700 57,400 Duke - Indiana Duke IN 8,700 8,700 Detroit Edison DTE MI 8,000 8,000 NYSEG Iberdrola NY 7,600 7,600 Atlantic City Electric Pepco NJ 7,400 7,400 Long Island Power LIPA NY 7,200 7,200

Authority

Oncor Energy Future TX 6,200 39,700

Holdings

AEP - Appalachian AEP WV, VA 5,600 5,600 Ameren - Missouri Ameren MO 4,400 4,400 FirstEnergy - FirstEnergy PA 4,400 4,400

Pennsylvania

AEP - Ohio AEP OH 3,800 3,800 FirstEnergy - West FirstEnergy WV, VA 3,600 3,600

Virginia

Connecticut Light & Northeast CT 3,600 3,600 Power Utilities Delmarva Power Pepco DE, MD 3,600 3,600 Con Edison Con Edison NY 3,500 3,500 National Grid - Rhode National Grid RI 2,700 2,700

Island

Duke - Carolinas Duke NC, SC 2,600 2,600 Entergy - Texas Entergy TX 2,400 19,000 Duke - Ohio & Kentucky Duke OH, KY 2,200 2,200 Entergy - Louisiana Entergy LA 2,200 22,000 Public Service New Northeast NH 1,700 1,700 Hampshire Utilities Georgia Power Southern GA 1,600 1,600 PPL - Pennsylvania PPL PA 1,600 1,600 PPL - Kentucky PPL KY 1,400 1,400 Baltimore Gas & Electric Exelon MD 1,300 1,300 AEP - Kentucky AEP KY 1,100 1,100 Alliant - Iowa Alliant IA 1,100 8,100 Dominion Virginia Dominion VA, NC 1,000 1,000Total Out Now 322,800