Funviralpark Thousands of Duke Energy customers across the Triangle area are without electricity as temperatures hit below freezing all day on Christmas Eve. Carolina.
With power on Friday night and no power on Saturday, Duke Energy has confirmed that there was a temporary outage, also known as a rolling blackout. These emergency stops are necessary to protect the energy grid from longer, more widespread outages, according to Duke Energy.
The company issued the following statement regarding the rolling blackouts: Duke Energy deeply appreciates the patience and understanding of our customers in dealing with this extreme weather event and will do everything possible to continue to provide power for as many people as possible until the situation improves. We are doing
As of Saturday evening, Duke Energy said it had halted its planned outages.company tweeted this statement Update: “Emergency rolling outage has ended in Carolina. Restoration of interrupted services must be completed today. Please continue to conserve energy without sacrificing safety. Thank you for your understanding and patience. will be grateful to.”
Statewide, less than 10,000 customers are without power.
On Saturday morning, Governor Cooper issued the following statement regarding the blackout.
“This morning, I spoke with Duke Energy CEO Lynn Goode about the need to restore power quickly in this extreme cold while providing accurate information to our customers. provided sexual assistance and expressed urgency. Please turn it back on.”
On Friday, Triangle stoppages passed 200,000 in the early afternoon. That number had dwindled to about 85,000 by late night.
Carol Bushey says the power went out at Paul’s Grocery and Grill at 10am on Friday.
“You can’t call the register. People can walk around the store and get what they need,” Bussy said. “Instead, you have to carry a flashlight and ring it with a calculator.”
Saturday’s temporary blackout was a big loss for small businesses, which are often “blame” with last-minute holiday shopping customers.
“It’s really inconvenient because you can’t shop with the debit cards that most people have today,” Busey continued. “We had to close the grills too. The grills are super, super, super busy. We had no LP[liquid propane]. We couldn’t sell kerosene or gas. That’s going to affect us a lot.” .”
For some Wake County residents, power outages on frigid days were a “huge inconvenience.”
Mike Dennis said, “It’s Christmas Eve. There are so many people wanting things and it’s hard to cook and be with the family,” said Mike Dennis. I feel sorry for them because a lot of them don’t know what to do.They don’t have any help.It’s like that.I got a powerless neighbor to check on her.”
Duke Energy spokesman Jeff Brooks said the company had to act quickly on Saturday because the extremely cold temperatures had caused unusually high energy demands.
“The idea of these planned temporary outages is when we reach a point where we no longer have enough power to meet all the needs of our customers – in this case we also didn’t have power from other areas. The Southeast has addressed this and has been able to take these temporary outages to protect our systems and protect our customers from longer or more disruptive outages,” Brooks said. increase.
“This is not how any of us wanted our holiday season to be. , when the storm comes, we put it aside. Our job is to get out of it. To be on the front lines, to restore things and lift people up.”
As power restoration continues, Duke Energy is asking for continued energy savings and patience as it also works to restore power to approximately 40,000 customers who experienced power outages due to Friday’s gale event.
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