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Co‑ops say mutual aid restored most customers after winter storm; thousands remained briefly without power
Summary
Middle Tennessee Electric and the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association credited mutual aid and linemen for restoring power after a historic winter storm. MTE reported just over 26,000 outages at peak on its system; the cooperative network peaked near 85,000 impacted members and was reduced to a few thousand within days.
Justin Meyerhoffer told the subcommittee that the cooperative network saw roughly 85,000 members without power at the storm's peak and credited mutual aid for rapid restoration: "we had about 85,000 members who are out of who are out of power over the last 10 days or so... But we are linemen have worked diligently... Now we're less than 5,000 overall in the cooperative network of folks without electricity."
Chris Jones gave a system‑level number for Middle Tennessee Electric, saying the co‑op experienced "just over 26,000 outages across our system," with the majority in Williamson County. Committee members praised the vegetation management and rapid response, and presenters emphasized the need to continue investments in resilience, vegetation management and grid modernization to reduce outage risk in future events.
