DC substation incident cuts power to over 1,000 customers; cause under investigation

A substation incident in Washington, DC, has left over 1,000 customers without power, with Pepco reporting no estimated restoration time. The cause remains under investigation, and the scope of the outage is limited but could signal infrastructure vulnerability. The incident is isolated and not yet linked to broader grid stress or malicious activity.

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