CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Power has been restored for Duke Energy customers who faced outages due to equipment going offline on Sunday morning, officials said.
The outage was first reported just after 10 a.m. in the Steele Creek area of Charlotte when nearly 5,000 customers were without power, Duke Energy said. Customers in the area witnessed traffic lights as well as businesses in the area without power.
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Duke Energy provided the following statement regarding the outage:
"We have been able to switch customers to other power lines and now have only about 1500 without power. We are working to bring them on now and are hopeful that we can have them on by our estimated 3:30 p.m. restoration time. We are still investigating the cause of the equipment failure."
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