Equipment failure leaves thousands in Concord without power

CONCORD, N.C. — More than 13,400 residents in Concord spent their Sunday morning without power due to a city-wide power outage.

The outages began around 8:53 a.m. throughout the city, according to the Concord power outage map.

The City of Concord said a piece of equipment at one of the delivery points failed.

By 10:45 a.m., crews had repaired the failure, and power was restored.

Why were so many customers impacted?

This is how the city explained why the outage was so widespread:

“The outage occurred at one of Concord Electric Systems’ delivery points in the north end of town where power from Duke Energy’s transmission lines are delivered to multiple substations that feed power to homes and businesses throughout the city.”

In the graphic below from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, see how energy gets to your house:

When a delivery point fails, the impact is amplified and more prominent than an issue at a substation or a downed power line, the city explained.

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