Duke Energy Florida thanks customers for their patience as company wraps up rapid restoration for nearly all customers impacted by Hurricane Debby
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Duke Energy Florida (NYSE: DUK) has rapidly restored power to over 90% of customers within 24 hours after Hurricane Debby's landfall. The company credits its swift response to year-round preparations, grid hardening, and innovative technology. A workforce of 3,000 restored power to more than 330,000 customers since Sunday morning. Duke Energy's self-healing technology saved over 4 million minutes of outage time and automatically restored about 23,000 customer outages. The company's infrastructure improvements have shown significant progress compared to Hurricane Hermine in 2016, which left customers without power for about five days. Duke Energy Florida serves 2 million customers across a 13,000-square-mile area and owns 12,300 megawatts of energy capacity.
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- Rapid power restoration to over 90% of customers within 24 hours after Hurricane Debby
- Self-healing technology saved over 4 million minutes of outage time
- Automatically restored approximately 23,000 customer outages
- Significant improvement in restoration time compared to Hurricane Hermine in 2016
- Successful deployment of 3,000 workers for rapid response
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- Advanced automated technology, year-round grid strengthening work accelerates rapid response during powerful storm
- Company has restored more than 330,000 customers since Sunday morning, with approximately 5,000 customers remaining as of 3:15 p.m.
A workforce of 3,000 lineworkers, vegetation workers, damage assessors and support teams, worked around the clock alongside Duke Energy storm response teams, power plant workers, grid operators and dispatchers to restore power to more than 330,000 customers since Sunday morning, when many communities along the west coast started feeling the effects from Debby.
The company staged crews and resources throughout
"Debby made landfall as a powerful Category 1 hurricane, bringing with it strong winds, heavy rainfall and widespread flooding across our service area, including in communities that were devastated by Hurricane Idalia last year," said Melissa Seixas, Duke Energy Florida state president. "Our customers rely on us to be prepared and restore power as quickly as possible during these critical times. It is a privilege to serve our customers and we thank them for their trust, patience and understanding."
Strengthening the grid to reduce storm impacts
In addition to investing in smart technologies and remote restoration capabilities, the company trims vegetation near power lines, installs stronger poles, upgrades wires and places outage-prone lines underground to strengthen the energy grid, reduce outages and restore power faster for customers.
The company's preliminary data indicates that its self-healing technology, infrastructure and storm hardening work are making a difference for
During Hurricane Debby, self-healing technology saved more than four million minutes of total lost outage time and automatically restored approximately 23,000 customer outages. More than
"We understand some customers were without power for more than 24 hours ahead of a work week and we know that can be extremely challenging," said Todd Fountain, Duke Energy Florida storm director. "We are grateful for the quick response, coordination and dedication of our first responders, state and local emergency management officials and Duke Energy crews and contractors."
Duke Energy crews will continue working until every customer is restored.
Duke Energy Florida
Duke Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, owns 12,300 megawatts of energy capacity, supplying electricity to 2 million residential, commercial and industrial customers across a 13,000-square-mile service area in
Duke Energy
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in
Duke Energy is executing an ambitious clean energy transition, keeping reliability, affordability and accessibility at the forefront as the company works toward net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions from electricity generation by 2050. The company is investing in major electric grid upgrades and cleaner generation, including expanded energy storage, renewables, natural gas and nuclear.
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