UPSTATE — Sirens located around Oconee Nuclear Station will be tested Wednesday, July 9, at approximately 11:50 a.m.

No public action is required during the three-minute test. By testing the sirens, state and county officials and Duke Energy ensure the sirens are operating properly. The full-cycle siren test is performed once each quarter. County emergency officials are responsible for sounding the sirens.

Hearing a siren does not mean to evacuate. In an emergency, the siren sounding is a signal for residents to tune to a radio or TV station in their area that would carry an emergency alerting message. County officials would use the stations to provide information to the public.

Duke Energy Carolinas owns nuclear, coal-fired, natural gas, renewable and hydroelectric generation. That diverse fuel mix provides approximately 20,000 megawatts of owned electric capacity to about 2.4 million customers in a 24,000-square-mile service area of North Carolina and South Carolina.