As of Tuesday afternoon, roughly 1.6 million Duke Energy customers in the Carolinas have had their power restored, but more than half a million outages remain.
Duke Energy spokesman Jeff Brooks tells Channel 9 the utility expects to restore most of those remaining outages by Friday night, though some of the hardest hit regions are still inaccessible.
Now that water is receding in the west, many crews are just starting to see the extent of the damage to the electric grid infrastructure after Tropical Storm Helene…