Power Restored in Orange and Durham Counties

Power has been restored to portions of Orange and Durham Counties that were without power earlier Wednesday.

The Duke Energy power outage map is showing all of the reported outages have been restored.

At the peak, more than 8,000 customers were suffering outages in Orange and Durham Counties.

The initial outage was reported around 10 o’clock Monday morning and power was restored before one o’clock in the afternoon.

Five schools in the Orange County School system – Central Elementary, Hillsborough Elementary, Cameron Park Elementary, Stanford Middle and Orange High School – were temporarily without power.

Duke Energy officials say a large transmission line carrying power to three substations was having “issues” causing the outages.