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 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.”
