Duke Energy crews restore power to 80,000 Ohio, Kentucky customers following severe storm; workers continue making progress with remaining power outages

• Greater than 1,000 native and out-of-state assets are working across the clock to revive energy to the remaining 31,000 impacted clients.

• Firm expects to have estimated occasions of restoration for these clients later this afternoon.

CINCINNATI – Duke Power is constant work to revive the roughly 31,000 remaining clients with out energy within the Cincinnati area following Thursday’s damaging storms that induced roughly 104,000 energy outages on the top of the storm to the corporate’s Ohio and Kentucky service areas.

Additional crews from Duke Power’s Indiana service territory and contractors from a neighboring utility arrived this morning to assist velocity up the evaluation and restoration course of. Lineworkers and vegetation crews are working within the area day and night time.

Storm-related harm is in depth with quite a lot of bushes and branches on energy traces, damaged energy poles and different infrastructure harm. As well as, a few of the outages contain particular person or small numbers of shoppers. In these instances, crews have to maneuver from home to deal with to make repairs and restore energy.

“We vastly respect the help from our Indiana crews and our clients’ persistence following the influence of this devastating storm,” mentioned Amy Spiller, president, Duke Power Ohio and Kentucky. “Downed bushes are complicating restoration efforts, even for these clients who could not have bushes down on their road or of their neighborhood. Greater than 1,000 line technicians and vegetation crews are working across the clock to get each buyer who can obtain energy restored.”

The areas most impacted embody Clermont and Hamilton counties in Ohio and Campbell and Kenton counties in Kentucky. In Northern Kentucky, 25,000 clients have been restored as of 11 a.m. at present.

As crews arrive and assess harm, up to date restoration occasions might be added later at present to Duke Power’s on-line outage map, which updates each 10 minutes.

Energy restoration course of

Along with making repairs, Duke Power crews are surveying the extent of harm. Injury evaluation is a crucial a part of the ability restoration course of because it helps decide the place the corporate will deploy its staff, tools and different assets.  

Duke Power focuses on restoring energy in a sequence that allows energy restoration to public well being and security services and to the best variety of clients as safely and rapidly as doable. Click on right here for info on how Duke Power restores energy.

Necessary security suggestions

Cooling facilities are open in recreation facilities in most Cincinnati-area areas.

Please decelerate or transfer over in case you see Duke Power crews or emergency administration crews working alongside the facet of the street. You possibly can assist make certain the oldsters working to revive energy end the job and get residence to their households safely.

Security stays critically essential throughout restoration efforts. Keep away from downed energy traces, they need to be thought of energized and harmful. Keep away from downed or sagging energy traces, and don’t contact something that’s on or close to an influence line (i.e., tree limbs, automobiles, or ladders). Downed traces must be reported to 800.543.5599.

Extra tips about what to do earlier than, throughout and after a storm could be discovered at duke-energy.com/safety-and-preparedness/storm-safety.

Generator security

All the time function a generator in accordance with producer’s tips and directions. Don’t function extra home equipment and tools than the output ranking of the generator.

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

Extra storm suggestions in addition to present outage info is positioned on duke-energy.com/storm beneath the “Outage and Storm Data.”

Conserving clients knowledgeable

Duke Power will present estimated energy restoration occasions for particular counties – as soon as these estimates have been decided – at duke-energy.com/outages/current-outages.

Prospects who’re registered for Duke Power textual content alerts will obtain a textual content as soon as an estimated restoration time is established for his or her location. (Signal as much as obtain outage alerts.)

Duke Power Ohio/Kentucky

Duke Power Ohio/Kentucky, a subsidiary of Duke Power, supplies electrical service to 880,000 residential, industrial and industrial clients in a 3,000-square-mile service space, and pure fuel 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 certainly one of America’s largest vitality holding firms. 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 fuel 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 targets of net-zero methane emissions from its pure fuel enterprise and no less than a 50% carbon discount from electrical technology by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 net-zero targets 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.

Duke Power was named to Fortune’s 2022 “World’s Most Admired Firms” checklist and Forbes’ “America’s Finest Employers” checklist. Extra info is obtainable at duke-energy.com. The Duke Power Information Heart incorporates information releases, reality sheets, pictures and movies. Duke Power’s illumination options tales about folks, improvements, neighborhood matters and environmental points. Observe Duke Power on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Fb.

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