Dominion Energy Restores Power to Most Dorchester County Outages by 8 p.m.

Dominion Energy restored power to most outages in parts of Dorchester County by 8 p.m. on Saturday. The utility said dominion energy crews had been responding after thunderstorms in Summerville triggered scattered outages. Customers in the affected areas saw service come back the same evening, while work continued around the pockets that had been hit.

Paul Fischer on 8 p.m.

Paul Fischer, a Dominion Energy spokesman, said "the majority of the outages were restored at 8 p.m." That gave a time mark for customers trying to figure out whether they were still in the outage zone or back on line. For households and businesses in parts of Dorchester County, the immediate question was not the storm itself but whether service had returned before nightfall.

Summerville thunderstorms and scattered outages

The outages were tied to thunderstorms in the Summerville area, and Dominion Energy crews responded to scattered power losses across the county. The pattern was uneven rather than countywide, which meant restoration could happen in stages instead of all at once. That kind of staggered response leaves some customers restored while others remain in the dark for longer.

Dorchester County customers after restoration

By Saturday evening, the key change for customers was simple: power had come back to most of the affected accounts. Anyone still without service after 8 p.m. was left waiting on the remaining crews handling the scattered outages. The company’s update points to a restoration process that moved quickly enough to return most service the same night, but not so fully that every outage disappeared at once.