08/30/2023
Hurricane Idalia Update 8/30 - 5:30 PM
A Message from our President/CEO
My fellow members,
I provided information on a previous post that may have given the wrong impression, so please allow me to explain.
We currently have outages across our service territory: https://colquitt.datacapable.com/map/
Moultrie District (Colquitt & Brooks Counties) - 11,724
Tifton District (Tift, Cook and Berrien Counties) - 15,887
Valdosta District (Lowndes and Brooks Counties) - 29,289
We are working in all counties to assess and repair damage so we can restore power to all of our members.
As a hurricane that journeyed from the gulf to the southern part of our system, the first area impacted was Brooks and Lowndes Counties. The more severely damaged areas of our system happen to be Brooks and Lowndes Counties. In no way does that mean we are not concerned about outages in every county, because we are! We have a complicating factor in Lowndes County currently. During a normal outage, we have electric service provided by high voltage transmission lines that feed power into our substations and then we carry and distribute that power throughout our system. Currently in Lowndes County, over 1/2 of our substations are not receiving that high voltage transmission power. We are waiting on Georgia Power and Georgia Transmission to make those repairs to the transmission lines before we can do our part in that area.
Please know that we are doing all we can to restore power to every member that has been affected by Hurricane Idalia no matter what county you are in. We appreciate your patience and your prayers as we navigate this restoration effort.
Sincerely,
Danny Nichols
President/CEO