Separate outages leave more than 6,000 Duke Energy customers without power in Charlotte

More than 6,000 Duke Energy customers in Charlotte were without power Thursday afternoon.

Duke Energy crews headed to University City to determine why over 4,000 customers lost service, spokeswoman Logan Kureczka told The Charlotte Observer. The outage was reported around 3:45 p.m., according to the company’s outage map.

Power was restored by 5:30 p.m., Kureczka said. A sewer crew cut Duke Energy’s underground cables, she said.

As of 4 p.m., more than 2,500 customers reported outages in an area that included the northern edges of South End and Dilworth, according to the outage map. The first outage was reported around 3:25 p.m.

The cause of the outages are trees or limbs damaging equipment. Service was restored Thursday night.

The outages came on one of the hottest days of the year. Temperatures in the Charlotte area climbed into the mid-90s Thursday.

A National Weather Service alert that included Mecklenburg County called for scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 10 p.m.

This story was originally published June 2, 2022 at 4:32 PM.