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Outages
Below you will find a list of power outages with date, location, duration, and cause. Outages included in this section were in excess of 30 minutes and/or are a planned outage situation. March 2, 2009 Location: Hatteras Island Duration: 10:07 PM – 3:30 AM – 5 hour 27 minutes Cause: Shackle broke on transmission line September 8, 2008 Location: Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Duration: 7:06 – 8:03 – 1 hour 29 minutes Cause: Shackle holding a transmission line insulator failed June 13, 2008 Location: Waves and Rodanthe Duration: 6:01 – 7:05 – 1 hour 4 minutes Cause: Equipment malfunction in the Waves substation. Location: Salvo and Waves Duration: 6:01 – 8:34 – 2 hours 33 minutes Cause: Equipment malfunction in the Waves substation. November 2, 2007 Location: Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands Duration: 16:42 – 19:27 – 2 hours 45 minutes Cause: Hardware failure on 115kV transmission line at Oregon Inlet during high wind event from Hurricane Noel. September 13, 2007 Location: Buxton, Frisco, Hatteras, and Tideland’s consumers on Ocracoke Duration: 05:07 - 05:58 - 51 minutes Cause: Salt contamination on the insulators in the Buxton 115kV substation causing a flashover. August 10, 2007 Location: Rodanthe, Waves and Salvo Duration: 06:08 - 07:49 - 1 hour 41 minutes Cause: Lightning strike caused circuit switcher in Waves substation to open. July 24, 2007 Location: Frisco and Hatteras Duration: 03:45 - 04:59- 1 hour 14 minutes Cause: Blown lightning arrestor on the service transformer that serves the Tideland substation in Hatteras. May 22, 2007 Location: Hatteras Duration: 22:17 to 23:12 - 55 minutes Cause: Cat on substation breaker tripped Hatteras substation off. May 7, 2007 Location: Frisco, Hatteras, Ocracoke Duration: 17:26 to 18:11 - 45 minutes Cause: Salt contamination on insulators in Frisco substation caused 34.5 kV line to trip off. April 4, 2007 Location: Buxton Duration: 06:10 to 07:15 - 1 hour 5 minutes Cause: Lightning during heavy thunderstorm caused circuit switcher at Buxton Generation Plant to open. November 23, 2006 Location: Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands Duration: 13:39 to 14:35 – 56 minutes Cause: NCDOT crews clearing sand from Highway 12 just north of Rodanthe struck and broke a guy wire which flew up and over the transmission line November 22, 2006 Location: Buxton Duration: 21:42 to 22:10 – 28 minutes Cause: Arcing on 115kV transmission line switch in Avon November 22, 2006 Location: Buxton Duration: 05:15 to 21:37 – 16 hours, 22 minutes Cause: Broken pole on Dominion Power 115kV transmission line just south of Colington November 22, 2006 Location: Frisco Duration: 05:15 to 22:15 – 17 hours, 0 minutes Cause: Broken pole on Dominion Power 115kV transmission line just south of Colington November 22, 2006 Location: Hatteras Duration: 05:15 to 22:20 – 17 hours, 5 minutes Cause: Broken pole on Dominion Power 115kV transmission line just south of Colington November 22, 2006 Location: Avon Duration: 05:15 to 21:35 – 16 hours, 20 minutes Cause: Broken pole on Dominion Power 115kV transmission line just south of Colington November 22, 2006 Location: Waves Duration: 05:15 to 21:34 – 16 hours, 19 minutes Cause: Broken pole on Dominion Power 115kV transmission line just south of Colington November 21, 2006 Location: Waves and Avon Duration: 18:14 to 19:56 – 1 hour, 42 minutes Cause: Insulator failure on 115kV transmission line south of Avon November 21, 2006 Location: Buxton, Frisco, Hatteras and Ocracoke Duration: 18:14 to 20:39 – 2 hours, 25 minutes Cause: Insulator failure on 115kV transmission line south of Avon September 1, 2006 Location: Frisco Duration: 22:00 to 23:35 - 1 hour, 35 minutes Cause: Snake on transformer in Frisco Substation May 1, 2006 Location: Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Duration: 7:14 to 08:01 - 47 minutes Cause: Buxton generating plant tripped off after unexpected load increase. Delay in restoration caused by mechanical problems with transmission line switch September 15, 2005 Location: Hatteras Substation Village Circuit Duration: 20:24 to 20:54 - 30 minutes Cause: Circuit opened for line repairs during storm restoration (Hurricane Ophelia) September 15, 2005 Location: Buxton Substation South Circuit Duration: 08:54 to 14:11 - 5 hours, 17 minutes Cause: High winds during Hurricane Ophelia (34.5 KV line problem) September 15, 2005 Location: Buxton Substation North Circuit Duration: 08:54 to 14:38 - 5 hours, 44 minutes Cause: High winds during Hurricane Ophelia (34.5 KV line problem) September 15, 2005 Location: Frisco Substation North Circuit Duration: 08:54 to 15:32 - 6 hours, 38 minutes Cause: High winds during Hurricane Ophelia (34.5 KV line problem) September 15, 2005 Location: Frisco Substation South Circuit Duration: 08:54 to 16:44 - 7 hours, 50 minutes Cause: High winds during Hurricane Ophelia (34.5 KV line problem) September 15, 2005 Location: Hatteras Substation Village Circuit Duration: 08:06 to 17:14 - 9 hours, 8 minutes Cause: High winds during Hurricane Ophelia September 15, 2005 Location: Hatteras Substation Beach Circuit Duration: 08:54 to 17:16 - 8 hours, 22 minutes Cause: High winds during Hurricane Ophelia (34.5 KV line problem) September 15, 2005 Location: Hatteras Substation Dock Circuit Duration: 08:54 to 17:54 - 9 hours,0 minutes Cause: High winds during Hurricane Ophelia (34.5 KV line problem) August 25 , 2005 Location: Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands Duration: 11:40 to 11:47 - 7 minutes Cause: Planned outage to remove toy kite and string from transmnission line August 1, 2005 Location: Buxton South Circuit Duration: 08:13 to 09:19 - 1 hour 6 minutes Cause: Insulator failure August 1, 2005 Location: Buxton North Circuit, Frisco, and Hatteras Duration: 08:13 to 08:55 - 42 minutes Cause: Insulator failure created flashover to transmission line July 17, 2005 Location: Waves North Circuit - Rodanthe, Northern Waves Duration: 09:00 to 10:52 - 1 hour 52 minutes Cause: Relay malfunction in Waves Substation July 17, 2005 Location: Waves South Circuit - Salvo, Southern Waves Duration: 09:00 to 10:18 - 1 hour 18 minutes Cause: Relay malfunction in Waves Substation July 13, 2005 Location: Frisco, Hatteras and Ocracoke Duration: 05:37 to 07:31 - 1 hour 54 minutes Cause: Lightning struck 34.5kV recloser at Buxton substation July 13, 2005 Location: Buxton Duration: 05:37 to 06:53 - 1 hour 16 minutes Cause: Lightning struck 34.5kV recloser at Buxton substation June 2, 2005 Location: Entire Island including Ocracoke Duration: 12:17 to 15:45 - 3 hours 28 minutes Cause: Insulator failed on 115kV line at Oregon Inlet May 6, 2005 Location: Waves Substation - South Circuit Duration: 13:43 to 16:03 - 2 hours 20 minutes Cause: High winds from storm broke jumpers on main line May 6, 2005 Location: Waves Substation - North Circuit Duration: 13:43 to 14:29 - 46 minutes Cause: Circuit switcher in Waves Substation tripped when South Circuit recloser opened April 21, 2005 Location: Avon Substation - all circuits Duration: 23:33 to 00:57 - 1 hour 24 minutes Cause: Salt contamination on substation insulators caused flashover March 8, 2005 Location: Avon Substation - all circuits Duration: 20:39 to 21:52 - 1 hour 13 minutes Cause: Jumper broke on station transformer during high wind event. March 8, 2005 Location: Buxton South Circuit Duration: 13:12 to 13:37 - 25 minutes Cause: High winds blew debris into line December 16 , 2004 Location: Waves Substation Duration: 13:42 to 14:26 - 44 minutes Cause: Insulator failed on 115 KV line December 16 , 2004 Location: Ocracoke Substation Duration: 13:42 to 17:10 - 3 hours, 28 minutes Cause: Insulator failed on 115 KV line December 16 , 2004 Location: Buxton 34.5 KV Substation Duration: 13:42 to 17:16 - 3 hours, 34 minutes Cause: Insulator failed on 115 KV line December 16 , 2004 Location: Frisco and Hatteras Substations Duration: 13:42 to 17:13 - 3 hours, 31 minutes Cause: Insulator failed on 115 KV line December 16 , 2004 Location: Avon Substation Duration: 13:42 to 16:14 - 2 hours, 32 minutes Cause: Insulator failed on 115 KV line August 15, 2004 Location: Avon Substation - Village Circuit Duration: 16:04 to 16:41 - 37 minutes Cause: Wire down in Avon Village August 3, 2004 Location: Hatteras Beach, Dock, and Village Ckts Duration: 11:42 to 19:57 - 8 hours 15 minutes Cause: Hurricane Alex (some scattered outages remained after this time) August 3, 2004 Location: Frisco North and South Circuits Duration: 11:42 to 20:38 (North), 11:42 to 18:47 (South) Cause: Hurricane Alex (some scattered outages remained after this time) August 3, 2004 Location: Buxton North and South Circuits Duration: 11:42 to 13:57 (North), 11:42 to 21:25 (South) Cause: Hurricane Alex (some scattered outages remained after this time) August 3, 2004 Location: Avon North and South Circuits Duration: 11:42 to 13:23 - 1 hour 41 minutes Cause: Hurricane Alex (some scattered outages remained after this time) August 3, 2004 Location: Waves North and South Circuits Duration: 11:42 to 13:23 - 1 hour 41 minutes Cause: Hurricane Alex (some scattered outages remained after this time) August 3, 2004 Location: Avon Village Circuit Duration: 11:42 to 17:17 - 7 hours 35 minutes Cause: Hurricane Alex (some scattered outages remained after this time) July 21, 2004 Location: Buxton, Frisco, and Hatteras Substations, Ocracoke Duration: 05:27 to 06:11 - 44 minutes Cause: Lightning in Buxton 115/34.5kV Substation June 11, 2004 Location: Frisco and Hatteras Substations, Ocracoke Duration: 01:51 to 04:39 - 2 hr, 00 min (total, 5 interruption) Cause: Lightning struck Buxton power Plant and Buxton transmission substation. June 11, 2004 Location: Buxton 34.5 kV Substation Duration: 01:51 to 04:36 - 1 hr, 36 min (total, 5 interruption) Cause: Lightning struck Buxton power Plant and Buxton transmission substation. May 22, 2004 Location: Buxton, Frisco & Hatteras Substations, Ocracoke Duration: 21:08 to 21:46 - 38 min Cause: Equipment malfunction. Voltage regulator control at Buxton caused 34.5 kV line to trip May 4, 2004 Location: Avon Substation Duration: 06:37 to 07:47 - 1 hr, 10 min Cause: Buxton generating plant tripped line off during maintenance of transmission line. March 17, 2004 Location: Waves Substation Duration: 14:32 to 15:21 - 49 min Cause: Switching problems during planned outage to maintain 115 kV switches at Oregon Inlet March 17, 2004 Location: Avon Substation Duration: 14:32 to 15:13 - 41 min Cause: Switching problems during planned outage to maintain 115 kV switches at Oregon Inlet March 13, 2004 Location: Avon Substation Duration: 04:04 to 05:48 - 1 hr, 44 min Cause: Perform maintenance on 115 kV switches March 12, 2004 Location: Waves Substation Duration: 04:02 to 05:47 - 1 hr, 45 min Cause: Planned outage to repair 115 kV switch March 8, 2004 Location: Waves Substation Duration: 14:01 to15:20 - 1 hr, 19 min Cause: Planned outage to repair 115 kV Switch at Waves Substation |
