Substation Attack News Today

The warrants show that investigators were looking to search the phone records of a Moore County couple after a tip that they may have been involved.

Sunday marks one year since the criminal attack on a Duke Energy power grid substation that left thousands of people in Moore County in the dark.

Multiple shots were fired at Duke Energy electrical substations located approximately 10 miles apart in West End and Carthage, North Carolina.

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Federal energy regulators on Thursday ordered a study to determine if security standards need to be improved following recent attacks on electrical facilities, including one in North Carolina.

Duke Energy officials faced questions from state utility regulators in Raleigh on Monday about the Dec. 3 attack on two electrical substations in Moore County. Three Duke executives offered few new details and still aren't saying publicly what the attack might cost customers.

Duke Energy said it has completed repairs on substation equipment damaged when it was shot up and that it expects power to be fully restored by the evening.

Duke Energy on Wednesday morning finished repairing and testing two electrical substations in Moore County that were damaged by gunfire Saturday. The company says just over 10,000 customers remained without power as of midday.

David Woronoff, longtime publisher of The Pilot newspaper in Southern Pines, joined WFAE's Marshall Terry on Morning Edition to talk about the attack on Moore County electrical substations.