Duke Energy Confirms Grid Apocalypse In North Carolina Amid Backlash Over Biden-Harris FEMA Mess | ZeroHedge
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Duke Energy confirmed on X that hundreds of power substations are offline across the Carolinas.
We initially reported on this unfolding power grid crisis Wednesday… pic.twitter.com/ut3kyPZr6l
Duke Energy confirmed on X that hundreds of power substations are offline across the Carolinas.
We initially reported on this unfolding power grid crisis Wednesday morning in a note titled Grid Apocalypse Hits Carolinas: 360 Substations Down, Power Restoration Could Take "Months," citing experts who warned, "It could take a very long time to restore power to everyone" due to shortages of transformers and other electrical equipment and critically low US stockpiles.
"Approximately 370 substations were out of service from the storm in the Duke Energy Carolinas service area. For those that were damaged and can't be repaired in a timely manner – mobile substations will be installed to allow us to restore service as soon as it is safe to do so," Duke wrote on X.
Bill Norton, a spokesperson with Duke Energy, noted, "With water levels coming down, we are starting to see some of this damage. We had entire substations that were under water."
As of Thursday morning, http://Poweroutage.US data shows nearly a million power outages across South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia.
We first reported the substation dilemma on Wednseday. The shortage of transformers and other grid components could leave parts of Western North Carolina without power for weeks, if not, in some cases, months.
Jesse D. Jenkins, an assistant professor and macro-energy systems engineering and policy expert at Princeton University, warned on X,
"This is devastating. We do NOT have 360 substations worth of transformers and other electrical equipment sitting in stockpiles waiting to be deployed. It could take a very long time to restore power to everyone. Are we facing a Hurricane Maria-type impact on grid infrastructure?"
Making matters worse for residents of North Carolina, some X users are pointing out the Biden-Harris administration supplied transformers to Ukraine. It needs to be clarified if these transformers were drained from US stockpiles.
The destruction in Western North Carolina is shocking.
Meanwhile, AP News reported that the Federal Emergency Management Agency does not have enough funding to last through the hurricane season.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody told Fox News that everyone should be outraged about Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas' comment on Wednseday about FEMA not having enough hurricane funding.
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