Duke Energy Releases Estimates for Power Restoration March 2, 2009
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Duke Energy personnel are making progress in restoring outages caused by last night’s winter storm, with power restored to more than 49,000 customers across the company’s North Carolina and South Carolina service area. At the peak of the storm, approximately 185,000 customers were without power.
Restoration work will continue through Wednesday. Duke Energy officials encourage customers with medical conditions and special needs to make appropriate plans. Below are the most current estimates for power restoration, by county:
| South Carolina | |
| Anderson County | 11 p.m. Wednesday |
| Cherokee County | 11 p.m. Tuesday |
| Greenville County | 11 p.m. Wednesday |
| Greenwood County | 11 p.m. Monday |
| Lancaster County | 11 p.m. Monday |
| Laurens County | 11 p.m. Monday |
| Oconee County | 11 p.m. Tuesday |
| Pickens County | 11 p.m. Tuesday |
| Spartanburg County | 11 p.m. Wednesday |
| York County | 11 a.m. Tuesday |
| North Carolina | |
| Alamance County | 5 p.m. Monday |
| Alexander County | 5 p.m. Tuesday |
| Burke County | 11 p.m. Monday |
| Cabarrus County | 11 p.m. Monday |
| Catawba County | 5 p.m. Tuesday |
| Cherokee County | 11 p.m. Tuesday |
| Cleveland County | 11 p.m. Wednesday |
| Davidson County | 11 a.m. Wednesday |
| Davie County | 11 p.m. Wednesday |
| Forsyth County | 11 p.m. Wednesday |
| Gaston County | 11 p.m. Wednesday |
| Guilford County | 11 p.m. Monday |
| Henderson County | 11 a.m. Tuesday |
| Iredell County | 5 p.m. Tuesday |
| Lincoln County | 11 p.m. Wednesday |
| Mecklenburg Co. | 5 p.m. Tuesday |
| Polk County | 11 a.m. Tuesday |
| Randolph County | 11 a.m. Wednesday |
| Rockingham County | 5 p.m. Monday |
| Rowan County | 11 p.m. Tuesday |
| Rutherford County | 11 a.m. Tuesday |
| Stanley County | 11 p.m. Tuesday |
| Stokes County | 11 p.m. Tuesday |
| Transylvania County | 11 a.m. Tuesday |
| Union County | 11 p.m. Monday |
Counties where storm restoration work has been completed are not listed here.
In all, more than 4,400 workers are responding to the storm, including approximately 750 personnel from Duke Energy’s Midwest service area and neighboring utilities.
Additional storm tips and outage information can be found on the Duke Energy web at http://www.duke-energy.com/. Customers can also get storm news updates on Twitter at http://twitter.com/DukeEnergyStorm.
Duke Energy's Carolinas operations include nuclear, coal-fired, natural gas and hydroelectric generation. That diverse fuel mix provides nearly 19,000 net megawatts of electricity to approximately 2.4 million electric customers in a 22,000-square-mile service area of North Carolina and South Carolina.
Duke Energy, one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, supplies and delivers electricity to approximately 4 million U.S. customers and natural gas service to approximately 520,000 customers in its regulated jurisdictions. The company has approximately 35,000 net megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Midwest and the Carolinas, and natural gas distribution services in Ohio and Kentucky. In addition, Duke Energy has more than 4,000 net megawatts of electric generation in Latin America, and is a joint-venture partner in a U.S. real estate company.
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the company is available on the Internet at: http://www.duke-energy.com/.
