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Tideland Electric Retires $960,000
November 24, 2025 06:54PANTEGO, NC - During fiscal year 2017, Tideland Electric Membership Corporation retired close to $1 million in capital credits. Retirements to the estates of deceased members of the electric cooper...
CHEC to energize and test new Oregon Inlet transmission cables
November 24, 2025 06:55The time has come for Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative to energize, test and put load on the new Oregon Inlet bridge transmission cables. Please note that Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands will be on...
Improving Power Quality on Tideland’s Merritt Circuit
November 24, 2025 06:55Improving Power Quality on Tideland’s Merritt Circuit This spring, Tideland EMC began several construction projects to improve service reliability and increase capacity on the Merritt circuit. Unfo...
Don't lose your cool this summer
November 24, 2025 13:29Top 10 Ways to Breeze Through Air Conditioning Season Smooth out the ups and downs of seasonal energy bills by signing up for Tideland's levelized billing plan. Please, please, please si...
Outage text messaging expands to allow outage reporting via text
November 24, 2025 13:34Since July 2012, Tideland has had the ability to communicate outage details to members via text. For the first few years, members were required to opt-in to program. When Hurricane Florence formed ...
Tideland EMC Prepared for Dorian
November 24, 2025 13:37Pantego - Tideland Electric Membership Corporation, with offices in Ocracoke, Engelhard, Grantsboro and Pantego, activated its emergency response plan on September 1 in preparation for Hurricane Do...
Evening Power Restoration Update
November 24, 2025 13:39Friday, 7 pm update: We have restored power to 6,299 members. 13,851 members remain without power. Crews will work until after dark and then return to hotels for the night and resume work at 5 am S...
Saturday, Sept. 7 Noon Update
November 24, 2025 13:43The following substations still have no power: MANNS HARBOR (Dominion has several broken poles on the Nags Head causeway); OCRACOKE (transmission line construction crews arrived at Hatteras Island ...
Power Restoration Update: Sat., Sept. 7, 10 pm
November 24, 2025 13:46To report an outage by phone call 1.800.882.1001. To report an outage by text message text the word OUT to short code 85700. Summary of remaining outages by substation and district as of 9:30 pm, S...
11 pm update, Sunday, Sept. 8
November 24, 2025 13:4711 pm update, Sun., Sept. 8Remaining Outages By County Beaufort County north of the Pamlico River 18 Beaufort County south of the Pamlico River 153 Hyde County mainland 157 Dare County 433 Hyde Co...