Albemarle Electric Membership Corp. will conduct a planned outage Tuesday that will affect the majority of its members in Chowan County as well as some in neighboring Perquimans County.
AEMC said the outage, which begins at 9 a.m. and will last about five hours, will help the energy cooperative bring online a new substation as well as perform maintenance on its system.
The recently completed West Albemarle substation will serve as a transmission facility to feed power to AEMCâs Edenton substation in Chowan, the cooperative said. The substation will also feed the future Bethel substation, which should be completed in the next couple of years, as well as a future substation to replace the current Edenton substation.
EDITORâS NOTE: This story is part of the Pulitzer Centerâs nationwide Connected Coastlines reporting initiative.
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At the same time, developers continue to transform forests and wetlands into even more homes and shopping centers â destroying acres and acres of spongy land that could help sop up these rising waters.
A new analysis requested by The Post and Courier for the Rising Waters project shows how the Charleston areaâs unprecedented building boom made us more vulnerable amid the accelerating forces of climate change.