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   Another North Carolina power substation was disabled before the Moore County   
   attack    
   by Richard Stradling, Dec. 08, 2022, News & Observer    
   Three weeks before someone shot and damaged two power substations in Moore   
   County, another substation was deliberately disabled near the Eastern North   
   Carolina town of Maysville.    
      
   The substation was damaged on Friday, Nov. 11, shutting down electricity for   
   about 12,000 homes and businesses served by the Carteret-Craven Electric   
   Cooperative.    
      
   CCEC says it was able to reroute power around the station and fully restore   
   electricity in about two hours.    
      
   In a statement posted on its website a few days after the incident, the   
   cooperative describes it as “vandalism.” The company said vandals damaged   
   transformers, causing them to leak coolant oil, but the statement doesn’t   
   say how.    
      
   Spokeswoman Melissa Glenn said this week that the company is not saying more   
   about the damage.    
      
   "Right now, because it’s an ongoing investigation, and because it’s   
   separate from everything that’s going on in Moore County, we are going to   
   withhold comment until we have more information,” Glenn said in an   
   interview. “And we will share that    
   whenever we are given the go-ahead from the authorities to do so.”    
      
   The Jones County Sheriff’s Office is leading the investigation, with help   
   from the State Bureau of Investigation. An SBI spokeswoman referred questions   
   to the sheriff’s office, which did not respond to a request for comment.    
      
   In the company’s statement, Jake Joplin, CCEC’s general manager and CEO,   
   urged whoever was responsible to turn themselves in.    
      
   “CCEC condemns this senseless act of vandalism,” Joplin said. “Those who   
   are responsible for attacking our system should know that CCEC and law   
   enforcement will not rest until they are brought to justice. They must also   
   know that attacking the    
   electrical grid is a serious criminal act.”    
      
   The CCEC substation is located on an isolated stretch of N.C. 58 about five   
   miles outside Maysville, which is about halfway between Jacksonville and New   
   Bern. The station is surrounded by a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire.    
      
   The agencies investigating the Moore County attacks have also disclosed little   
   about what happened, other than to say the equipment was hit by gunfire and   
   that the shooters knew what they were doing. More than 45,000 Duke Energy   
   customers lost power when    
   substations in Carthage and west of Pinehurst were disabled within an hour of   
   each other Saturday evening.    
      
   The Moore County outage lasted for days while the company replaced large   
   pieces of equipment that had been damaged beyond repair. That work was   
   completed Wednesday morning, and power was restored to nearly every customer   
   in the county by 5 p.m.   
      
   https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article269713541.html   
      
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