UPDATE: Power restored to thousands of Duke Energy customers in Wilmington
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — Duke Energy says power has been restored to more than 17,000 customers following a major outage on Wednesday.
Jeff Brooks, a spokesperson for Duke Energy, says issues at two substations caused the outage.
The first problem began around 1pm on Wednesday. Initially, nearly 9,000 customers were affected. That number was reduced to around 3,000 by late afternoon, before the second outage occured.
The number of customers without power surged to more than 17,000 when the second outage happened.
Power was restored to most customers by 7pm Wednesday evening, with the remaining customers back online before 11pm Wednesday evening.
