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With Hurricane Ian’s imminent landfall expected along Florida’s west coast, Duke Energy is increasing the number of resources coming to Florida and urging customers to take steps to prepare for power outages.

Duke Energy Florida is preparing for Tropical Storm Ian and is urging customers to prepare as well.

September is National Preparedness Month and with peak hurricane season upon us, Duke Energy Florida is reminding customers to stay vigilant and continue taking steps to prepare for major storms and other emergencies.

The Duke Energy Foundation is awarding more than $175,000 in microgrants to support 47 local emergency management agencies across the company’s Indiana service territory.

As Duke Energy crews continue working to restore the remaining 10,000 customers without power in the Cincinnati region, the company announced today $100,000 to support the hardest-hit areas around Goshen, where an EF2 tornado has been confirmed.

Duke Energy anticipates to restore service to the majority of its customers impacted by Wednesday’s powerful storms by noon on Friday.

Duke Energy is continuing work to restore the approximately 31,000 remaining customers without power in the Cincinnati region following Thursday’s damaging storms that caused approximately 104,000 power outages at the height of the storm to the company’s Ohio and Kentucky service areas.

Duke Energy is assessing damage and restoring power after a powerful storm knocked out power to approximately 100,000 customers in southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky Wednesday afternoon.

As Florida heads into another month of hurricane season and afternoon thunderstorms become more common, Duke Energy Florida’s smart, self-healing technology continues to benefit customers during power outages.

Newly enacted legislation, which passed the General Assembly with strong bipartisan support and was quickly signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster, could save South Carolina electric customers millions of dollars in costs to restore service after recent historic as well as future weather events.