Wake Forest Substation Outage Resolved
Today on July 12th 2023, the Wake Forest Substation temporarily went down, affecting 4000 members. Crews were quickly on the scene to assess the situation and found that the substation was offline due to wildlife interference with equipment. The on-site crews were able to resolve the issue and then restored power.
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