October 12, 2018 - EIA has published a new Hurricane Michael Electricity Status Report. This will be the final report of the series.

Friday, October 12, 2018

Weather: Tropical Storm Michael moved rapidly through Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia yesterday with heavy rainfall and up to 65 mile-per-hour winds extending 275 miles from the center before entering the Atlantic Ocean this morning.

Electricity: The hurricane’s impact can be most clearly seen in the TAL (City of Tallahassee) balancing authority (BA), where load remains very low but is showing signs of recovery. Loads yesterday and today in other BAs, including DUK and CPLE in the Carolinas (see p. 7-8), were slightly lower than previous days; however, a steep drop in temperatures overnight partially obscures the impact of recovery efforts on load.

Generators: Both reactors at the 1,751-megawatt Farley nuclear plant in Alabama reported about 55% capacity availability this morning, up from 30% yesterday morning. 

Customer outages, as of 1:00 p.m.: About 452,000 customers in Virginia (roughly 12% of the state); 410,000 customers in North Carolina (8%); 280,000 customers in Florida (3%); 146,000 customers in Georgia (3%); 23,000 customers in Alabama (1%); and 3,000 customers in South Carolina (<1%). Recovery is underway, but outages remain in the areas with the most severe (Florida and Georgia) and recent (North Carolina and Virginia) impacts.