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BINGO: Enter for a chance to win $250 electric bill credit
November 24, 2025 14:30As a member-owner of Tideland EMC we hope you already feel like a winner but we’re sweetening the pot with our MYEMC Bingo prize drawing. Complete your entry form by placing an “X” on those act...
Washington Substation Planned Outage
November 24, 2025 14:32Tideland EMC will conduct a planned outage of its Washington substation on the morning of Thursday, November 18. The outage will begin at one minute after midnight (12:01 am). The outage will last ...
Degree Day Analysis for December 2021
November 24, 2025 14:33With the start of the New Year, we are now able to look back at December's temperature data and its impact on HVAC use. Home heating needs decreased 46% this December compared to December 2020 than...
Move Over - It's the law
November 24, 2025 14:35North Carolina law requires drivers to give wide berth to emergency responders including electric utility crews. As an additional reminder, the public should also keep clear of work zones while on ...
What are degree days?
November 24, 2025 14:36Tideland closely tracks degree day data to help explain energy use patterns specific to home heating and air conditioning. Members who use the online portal can overlay the degree days with their o...
Planned Outage: 36 members on South Circuit
November 24, 2025 14:37Tideland EMC at Ocracoke will have 36 member locations on the South Circuit without power today 3/8/2022 from 9:30 am to 11:30 am. Lee Electric Crews on the island will begin transferring power to ...
Cold weather alert
November 24, 2025 14:38During this first official week of winter, North Carolina is under a state of emergency in anticipation of dangerously cold weather. Tidelanders will be exposed to unseasonably low temperatures. Th...
Lowland Circuit Emergency Planned Outage
November 24, 2025 14:40Tideland EMC and Duke Energy will have to conduct an emergency planned outage this morning to replace a joint use pole that was broken during an early morning traffic accident. The outage is expect...
Arapahoe circuit outages
November 24, 2025 14:41The NC Department of Transportation will soon be underway with two (2) separate Pamlico County Bridge replacement projects funded in the 2022 and 2023 Highway Maintenance Improvement Program (HMIP)...
August Repeatedly Breaks Temperature Records
November 24, 2025 14:44All indications are that August will be another record setter like July. In fact, on August 13, 14 and 15 new all-time high temperature records were set in Tideland territory.Unfortunately, fo...