Northeastern REMC Sends Employees And Equipment To Help Restore Power In Virginia
January 6, 2022 at 1:35 a.m.
By Staff Report-
More than 85,0000 people were left without power after the power system sustained major damage, according to a news release from NREMC.
NREMC joined more than 30 line workers from across Indiana on Monday as they left for Rappahannock Electric Cooperative in Culpeper, Va.
Monday’s snowstorm brought as much as 11 inches of heavy snow to Virginia along with high winds. The restoration effort is expected to last at least a week and will be especially difficult due to the expected below-freezing temperatures. The local co-op in Virginia serves close to 170 people in 22 counties.
“With that many people without power, we knew that additional crews and bucket trucks were needed to help speed up the efforts to restore power,” said Jim Eitsert, vice president of distribution services at NREMC. “We know the group we sent to Virginia will work hard to help wherever they’re needed.”
Electric co-ops in Indiana, like NREMC, belong to a network of hundreds of other co-ops around the country that assist with storms or other events that result in significant power outages. Several hundred employees from Ohio, Missouri, Georgia and Florida will also be joining the restoration efforts to bring power back online as soon as possible.
“If a storm caused severe damage to our area, we know we’d have hundreds of lineworkers headed our way too,” Eitsert added.
According to Rappahannock Electric Cooperative’s website on Wednesday morning, they were able to reduce the number of people affected by power outages to 59,000 and have more than 1,000 workers in the field working together to bring power back to Virginia.
More than 85,0000 people were left without power after the power system sustained major damage, according to a news release from NREMC.
NREMC joined more than 30 line workers from across Indiana on Monday as they left for Rappahannock Electric Cooperative in Culpeper, Va.
Monday’s snowstorm brought as much as 11 inches of heavy snow to Virginia along with high winds. The restoration effort is expected to last at least a week and will be especially difficult due to the expected below-freezing temperatures. The local co-op in Virginia serves close to 170 people in 22 counties.
“With that many people without power, we knew that additional crews and bucket trucks were needed to help speed up the efforts to restore power,” said Jim Eitsert, vice president of distribution services at NREMC. “We know the group we sent to Virginia will work hard to help wherever they’re needed.”
Electric co-ops in Indiana, like NREMC, belong to a network of hundreds of other co-ops around the country that assist with storms or other events that result in significant power outages. Several hundred employees from Ohio, Missouri, Georgia and Florida will also be joining the restoration efforts to bring power back online as soon as possible.
“If a storm caused severe damage to our area, we know we’d have hundreds of lineworkers headed our way too,” Eitsert added.
According to Rappahannock Electric Cooperative’s website on Wednesday morning, they were able to reduce the number of people affected by power outages to 59,000 and have more than 1,000 workers in the field working together to bring power back to Virginia.
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