Duke Energy officials apologized Tuesday for a series of outages on Christmas Eve that affected approximately half a million customers. Company officials say some of the outages were longer than expected because of a failure of automation that required crews to restore the power manually.
Duke Energy officials answered questions from the North Carolina Utilities Commission during a public briefing Tuesday. The company offered more details about its decision to implement rolling blackouts for the first time in its history.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Duke Energy Corp. executives on Tuesday blamed a convergence of widespread extreme cold, higher than projected demand, malfunctioning plant equipment and the inability to buy power elsewhere
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