Progress Energy plans Lillington area outage Tuesday night

Lillington, N.C. — Progress Energy will cut power to about 4,300 homes and businesses in Lillington, Mamers and Bunn Level on Tuesday night to make repairs to a substation.

Company spokesman Mike Hughes said the outage would begin about 11:30 p.m. and could last up to three hours.

Progress Energy employees doing a routine inspection found problems Tuesday morning with the equipment at the company’s electric substation serving the Lillington area. Hughes said the repairs are necessary to prevent damage to equipment and avoid a longer, larger power outage in the area.

The weather forecast calls for temperatures in the teens overnight, close to record lows for this date, WRAL meteorologist Mike Maze said.

“With it being so cold, we know this is a major inconvenience for our customers, and we’re doing all we can to complete repairs as quickly and safely as possible,” said Marty Clayton, Progress Energy’s community relations manager. “We’ve tried to time the repairs when our customers will be least affected.”

The company alerted customers who need power for medical needs so that they could make other arrangements, Hughes said.

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Fuquay Resident, change the delay on your alarm. What would you do if your garage door opener died? Oh my, that would never happen, would it???

ThisIsMyName
March 4, 2009 10:06 a.m.

" If a major storm comes through, and there is no redundancy then there will be a LOT of people out of power for a long time."

DUH!!!!!!!! This happens in a lot of areas. Wake up!

ThisIsMyName
March 4, 2009 10:05 a.m.

Gee! Why can't they wait til later on in the week, when it'll be warmer?

Malcontent
March 4, 2009 10:00 a.m.

There is NO REASON why they cannot bypass a sub station! NONE!

If they cannot bypass a simple substation that means that their system is not redundant. If a major storm comes through, and there is no redundancy then there will be a LOT of people out of power for a long time.

Glad I have a couple of gen sets!

NCPictures
March 4, 2009 8:10 a.m.

"And, what's the big deal not having power for 3 hours at that time of night?"

With society's dependence on electrical power, any outage is a pretty big deal, however, for the power company to make such a decision, the necessary repairs must have been an even BIGGER deal than the customers' convenience.

Bottom line is that there was life before electricity, and the will certainly be life afterward as well.