Electric Membership Cooperative (EMC) Line Crews Worked Throughout the Night
TUCKER, Ga., Feb. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC crews made great progress overnight. As of 5 a.m. EMCs report approximately 57,500 customers without power, down from 79,000 late last night. Since the height of the winter storm, EMCs have restored power to 76,500 customers in heavily damaged and hard-to-reach parts of northeast Georgia.
Hundreds of additional line workers have been brought in to these areas and will work until power is restored. Restoration efforts have been challenging since many of these areas have been impassable, and trees and other debris must be removed before work begins.
All available resources have been dedicated to the restoration effort, including several hundred additional line crews. Local EMC crews, EMC line workers from across the state, private contract crews and additional right-of-way crews have been working non-stop since the winter weather arrived. Crews from Alabama and Florida will be assisting as well.
Restoration efforts have been focused in Forsyth, Hall, Gwinnett, Lumpkin, Dawson, Cherokee, Jackson, Banks, Barrow, Habersham and White counties. Currently, most EMCs estimate that the majority of customers will be restored within 24-48 hours, while some outages will take longer due to the nature of damage and because some outages are located in remote areas.
Georgia EMC is the statewide trade association representing the state's 41 EMCs, Oglethorpe Power Corp., Georgia Transmission Corp. and Georgia System Operations Corp. Collectively, Georgia's customer-owned EMCs provide electricity and related services to 4.4 million people, half of Georgia's population, across 73 percent of the state's land area.
Note: Another update is scheduled for 10 a.m..
SOURCE Georgia EMC
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