North and South Carolina customers set a record for electricity use this summer as temperatures soared above 90 degrees for more than a week, Duke Energy announced.
Customers used 20,671 megawatt hours of electricity on July 27, which surpassed the previous record of 20,628 megawatts hours on Aug. 8, 2007.
The record power use for both summer and winter, 21,101 megawatt hours, was set on Feb. 20, 2015.
Duke Energy officials are monitoring the electric system to ensure customers have power in the sweltering summer temperatures.
“We have sufficient supplies of electricity to meet our customers’ needs, and our technicians are working around the clock to ensure smooth operations at our power plants and along our power lines,” Nelson Peeler, vice president of system planning and operations, said.
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