Summer & peak hours. Here’s the reason for the power outage in Myrtle Beach
On Tuesday evening power went out for approximately 2,400 people around the Market Common neighborhood of Myrtle Beach.
According to company spokesperson Tracy Vreeland, the cause of the power outage was due to a piece of electrical equipment, the terminator on the RPC riser, burning up.
“It’s basically just a switch, like a paddle that reaches to the switch, and it burnt up, and it had nothing to do with the weather,” Vreeland said over the phone on Wednesday morning. “It’s just a piece of equipment that’s been there a long time, and these things happen.”
She confirmed that peak hours and summer weather had nothing to do with Tuesday’s outage.
Since the outage occurred during summer peak hours, which are 3 to 6 p.m., Vreeland said customers without power will not be charged for electricity during the outage.
She said that there is a slight risk of being charged for electricity for large plugged in appliances once the power returns, so Santee Cooper recommends in an outage to make sure that everything is turned off.
