Power outage in Seneca

An unscheduled power outage has taken about one-half of Seneca’s electric customers out of service.  Bob Faires, utilities director, says the problem is with the city’s No. 2 substation and it means no service for those customers south of the railroad track.  According to Faires, Duke Energy will make repairs.  The unscheduled outage follows by several hours today a scheduled outage for work on the system that covered two or three hours starting at midnight last night.  Faires says the two appear to be unrelated.