Duke Energy crews restore power to 221,000 Ohio, Kentucky customers following severe storms; workers continue making progress with remaining power outages

• Native and out-of-state crews working across the clock to revive energy to remaining 11,000 impacted clients.

• Firm expects to revive energy to all clients by 11:59 p.m. right now, with many shoppers’ energy restored sooner.

CINCINNATI – Duke Power right now is continuous work to revive the 11,000 remaining clients with out energy within the Cincinnati area following Monday’s damaging storms that precipitated essentially the most important energy outage impacts to the corporate’s Ohio and Kentucky service areas in additional than a decade.

The areas most impacted by Monday’s storm embody Butler, Warren and Hamilton counties.

Duke Power storm officers have established an estimated time of energy restoration for 11:59 p.m. tonight for remaining outages, however many shoppers’ energy will probably be restored previous to that point.

As crews arrive and assess injury, up to date restoration instances will probably be added to Duke Power’s on-line outage map, which updates each 10 minutes.

Northern Kentucky clients have been restored as of seven a.m. right now.

Additional crews from Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and North Carolina arrived all through the day on Tuesday to assist velocity up the evaluation and restoration course of. Lineworkers and vegetation crews are working within the area day and night time.

“We moved swiftly to carry further assets into the realm, given the widespread and important injury and this week’s warmth advisory,” stated Amy Spiller, president, Duke Power Ohio and Kentucky. “We vastly respect the help from neighboring crews and our clients’ persistence within the aftermath of this storm.”

The storm broken a considerable amount of electrical transmission and distribution tools, together with substations, utility poles, energy strains and different key system parts – all of which must be repaired earlier than energy may be restored to the remaining particular person clients.

Whereas 166,000 clients had been concurrently with out energy on the peak of the occasion Monday night, crews have since restored energy to greater than 221,000 clients, in complete.

The remaining outages usually have an effect on solely a small variety of clients, which will increase the period of time it takes for crews to evaluate and restore energy to the numerous particular person outage occasions.

Security

Keep away from downed energy strains         

• Security stays critically essential throughout restoration efforts. Keep away from downed energy strains, they need to be thought-about energized and harmful.

• Avoid downed or sagging energy strains, and don’t contact something that’s on or close to an influence line (i.e., tree limbs, automobiles, or ladders).

• Preserve kids and household pets away from areas the place strains might have fallen (backyards, fields, and so forth.)

• Report all energy line hazards to Duke Power or your native emergency companies division or company.

Generator security

• At all times function a generator in accordance with producer’s pointers and directions. Don’t function extra home equipment and tools than the output score of the generator.

• To keep away from carbon monoxide poisoning, by no means use a generator indoors or in connected garages.Solely function the generator outside in a well-ventilated, dry space away from air intakes into the house.

• To keep away from electrocution, plug particular person home equipment into the generator utilizing heavy-duty, outdoor-rated cords with a wire gauge ample for the equipment load.

• If connecting into the home wiring is important on a short lived foundation, properties ought to have a switch swap put in by a licensed electrician.

• Further storm ideas in addition to present outage info is positioned on duke-energy.com/storm underneath the “Outage and Storm Info.”

Duke Power Ohio/Kentucky

Duke Power Ohio/Kentucky, a subsidiary of Duke Power, offers electrical service to 880,000 residential, industrial and industrial clients in a 3,000-square-mile service space, and pure gasoline service to 550,000 clients in a 2,650-square-mile service space, in Ohio and Kentucky.

Duke Power (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 firm headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one in all America’s largest vitality holding corporations. Its electrical utilities serve 8.2 million clients in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively personal 50,000 megawatts of vitality capability. Its pure gasoline unit serves 1.6 million clients in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The corporate employs 28,000 folks.

Duke Power is executing an aggressive clear vitality transition to attain its objectives of net-zero methane emissions from its pure gasoline enterprise and not less than a 50% carbon discount from electrical technology by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 net-zero objectives additionally embody Scope 2 and sure Scope 3 emissions. As well as, the corporate is investing in main electrical grid enhancements and vitality storage, and exploring zero-emission energy technology applied sciences corresponding to hydrogen and superior nuclear.

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