Tennessee public power utility Nashville Electric Service reported that it has made significant progress in restoring power to customers that were impacted by Winter Storm Fern.
On Saturday, Jan. 31, NES reported that its “newest wave of lineworkers is hitting the ground running. Before they head out to your neighborhoods, team members join critical briefings to get fully trained on the specifics of Nashville’s power grid.
“With today's new arrivals, we have more than 1,100 lineworkers from seven states now dedicated to getting Nashville back on its feet,” it noted.
As of the evening of January 30, NES reported that the total customers without power was at 57,837 and that total number of customers restored was 172,163.
In a video posted on NES social media channels over the weekend, NES President and CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin said that “progress has been made, with power restored to 80 percent of our customers who had outages. By Tuesday, 90 percent will be restored and by Sunday, February 8, 99 percent of our customers will have power back.”
On the evening of Monday, Feb. 2, Broyles-Aplin in a video posted on NES social media channels said that "tremendous progress has been made today in terms of restoring power and collaborating with city leaders for a path forward."
She said: "We committed to bringing you estimated restoration projections and I can report that we made up ground and are now ahead of expecations. As of today, power has been restored to more than 90 percent of our customers."
Broyles-Aplin also noted than on Feb. 2 an additional 500 lineworkers were added to the group of lineworkers who have been working to restore power to NES customers, "bringing our total to over 1,700. This is our largest storm response in NES history. But we are also responding to the largest outage event in NES history."
