CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- More people are coming to the Charlotte area, and it doesn't appear to be slowing down anytime soon.

New data this week revealed 157 people are moving to the region every day.

All the growth means more demand on the electrical grid.

"We've known this was coming for a while," said Logan Stewart, a Duke Energy spokesperson. "We expect population to grow."

Stewart says Duke Energy is in the middle of years of grid improvement projects. That means replacing power lines and replacing wooden poles with new, sturdier steel poles.

Duke's plan also includes adding new "self-healing" technology.

"When it senses an outage on the line, the customers on that feed will be transferred to another line, so what they would experience is a very momentary outage or n

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