Advisory
Chapelboro.com
A power outage in Pittsboro, North Carolina, left over 2,500 Duke Energy customers without service. The source did not provide details on the cause or duration of the outage. Pittsboro is part of Duke's central service area in the state.
This incident follows other recent outages in North Carolina, raising questions about grid reliability. Despite Duke Energy's investments in grid modernization, such events highlight the challenges of maintaining infrastructure amid increasing demand.
Why it matters: Repeated outages in key service areas could impact customer satisfaction and raise concerns about the resilience of Duke Energy's grid, particularly as demand from large users like data centers grows.