About 71% of Tampa Electric’s customers were without electricity Thursday morning after the hurricane hit land on Florida’s west coast. About 3.4 million electric customers were without power in Florida on Thursday morning after Hurricane Milton hit the state’s...
Hurricane Milton continues to pose a grave danger to Florida, where its potentially historic strike will bring destructive, life-threatening storm surge, widespread wind damage, flooding rainfall and tornadoes beginning Wednesday. “Milton has the potential to...
A state of emergency has been declared in Florida ahead of Milton, which is forecast to plow into the western peninsula on Wednesday as a major hurricane, packing wind gusts up to 140 mph and 15 feet of storm surge. Just days after the devastating impacts of Hurricane...
Mudslides, flooding and downed trees are challenging utilities in remote areas as they work to restore power. So far, supply chains have kept pace with the need for replacement equipment. Recovery efforts continue after Hurricane Helene knocked out power to about 6...
‘There are lots of areas across the South Carolina Upstate and North Carolina mountains where we’re going to have to completely rebuild parts of our system, not just repair it.’ Duke Energy restored power to more than 1.1 million Carolinas customers...
Multiple utilities say they will need to completely rebuild, rather than repair, electric systems in the hardest-hit areas. Helene was the most destructive hurricane in Georgia Power’s history. About 2 million electric customers remained without power across the U.S....
