Duke Energy restoring power outages in Wilmington area

WECT · last updated May 28, 2026 – 11:34 PM

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) — As of 4:40 p.m. Thursday, approximately 641 Duke Energy customers are without power in the Wilmington area.

At its peak, more than 2,000 customers in the area were stuck without power, with the main affected areas including Ogden, Murrayville, and Myrtle Grove, among others.

The first outage was reported at 3:09 p.m. on May 28, according to the Duke Energy outage map. Crews are actively working to restore power.

This is a developing story.

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