Berkeley County residents experience mass power outage
Mar 20, 2025
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – Residents across Berkeley County lost power in their homes Thursday night.
Over 10,000 Berkeley Electric Cooperative customers were reportedly without power around 10:30 p.m.
Berkeley Electric released a statement saying the outage was due to the loss of tran
smission to two substations in the county. “Crews are working on rerouting power until the cause can be identified and corrected,” officials said.
At 11:11 p.m., the outage map shows that only two customers remain powerless. ...read more read less