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Duke Energy crews have now restored all but about 1,000 customers in Indiana following a strong storm system that roared through the state Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

More than 15,000 Duke Energy customers in Indiana remain without electric service following powerful storms late Tuesday night and this morning. This is down from a high of nearly 31,000 customer outages at 9:15 a.m. today.

More than 30,000 Duke Energy customers in Ohio and Kentucky remain without electric service following powerful storms this morning. This is down from a high of nearly 46,000 customer outages at 8:15 a.m.

Duke Energy is closely monitoring the first winter storm of the year, which is expected to bring snow to North Carolina and South Carolina this weekend.

We are undertaking a broad modernization of our power grid to give customers even more reliable, affordable electricity with more choices and control.

Piedmont Natural Gas today advised customers that Piedmont crews will be canvassing neighborhoods in flood impacted areas to inspect natural gas meters for signs of submersion from flooding caused by Hurricane Matthew. Any meter believed to have been submerged will be removed and natural gas service to the home or business will be turned off.

As we have been communicating for several days, historically high flood waters in the Neuse River have covered three inactive coal ash basins at the H.F. Lee Power Plant in Goldsboro, N.C. Today, engineers confirmed that some material, including coal ash, eroded and was carried by flood waters outside one of the berms of an inactive basin.

Less than 30,000 power outages remain Friday as Duke Energy crews continue to restore power to the roughly 1.5 million customers affected by Hurricane Matthew.

Since the weekend, Duke Energy crews have reduced the number of customer outages caused by Hurricane Matthew from roughly 1.4 million to fewer than 60,000 – a company record pace for restorations in similar storms.

Although Hurricane Matthew is no longer a threat, the devastation it created continues to be felt by thousands of people in the Southeast. Duke Energy today announced a donation of $325,000 to help seven charities providing disaster relief assistance in several of the states it serves – North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.