Outages & Weather Updates

My fellow members, I am happy to report that today is the day. By the end of work today, we believe we should have service restored to all of our meters that can receive service. The exceptions are those few accounts needing repairs before we can restore service. If you have received those repairs and are ready for us to connect service, please email customerservice@colquittemc.com with the name on your account and service address. As of noon, we had approximately 13 meters in Berrien...

My fellow members, I recognize that I reported that we should have Berrien County restored by yesterday. Unfortunately, the amount of work that was required at the locations of service interruption was greater than we anticipated. I say “greater,” but we believe we will wrap up the vast majority of those by tomorrow morning. In Lowndes County, work continues, and we expect to be finished there by Sunday morning. As far as manpower is concerned, we have released a small number of...

My fellow members, Colquitt EMC Employees and Contract Crews continue their work to restore service to our members. We continue to make progress and reduce the outages day by day. Currently, we still have outages in Berrien and Lowndes County. In Berrien, we have approx. 500 meters without service. Before the close of business today, we will have those meters restored. In Lowndes County, we have approximately 1700 meters without service. We believe our target is still getting all...

My fellow members, Our work continues at a steady pace. Currently, in Colquitt, Worth, Tift, and Brooks Counties, we have more or less restored service to all members. Exceptions will be the members that have damage to their structure that doesn’t allow us to restore service without repairs made by the electrician. For more information on which portions of the service are the member’s responsibility and which belong to the cooperative, please visit our website...

My fellow members, Colquitt EMC employees and contractors continue working in extremely difficult conditions to restore power. As a reminder, at the height of the hurricane, Colquitt EMC lost power to approximately 67,000 meters out of our 73,000 meters. As of 9:00 AM this morning, we have approximately 7,400 meters without service. Restoration is pretty much wrapped up in Worth, Tift, Colquitt, and Brooks counties. In the remaining counties, we have the following outages: Cook –...

My fellow members, We are hoping to provide an update on our Hurricane Helene Restoration Effort. As I have previously reported, we have ramped up to 1,000 personnel, both construction and right of way, working on our system. We have 17 construction crews that will be joining us sometime before lunch today. We will allocate those resources to the most needed areas. Allow me to provide a little more detailed update on our restoration efforts by county: Colquitt, Tift & Worth...

Many of our members’ homes have sustained significant damage, including damage to electrical service entrance points. This graphic shows which portions of the service are the member's responsibility and which portions will be repaired by Colquitt EMC. If your home sustained electrical damage at the weatherhead or meter base, you’ll need to contact an electrician to have those repaired before electricity will flow to your home. Click here to view the infographic

My fellow members, We are on Day 9 of our Hurricane Helene Restoration Effort. As we have said previously, at the peak Colquitt EMC had over 67,000 of our 73,000 meters without service. I am happy to report that we have approximately 18,000 meters without service as of this morning. From my perspective, the efforts to restore service have been successful. I recognize that if you are currently one of the members without service, then you may not see success at all. I believe the numbers we...

My fellow members, Colquitt EMC continues to work diligently on restoring power to our membership. We have been working on this storm and its aftermath for one week. At its peak, we had 67,000 meters without power, and as of this update, we are down to 20,500 meters without power. Many of these meters are in Lowndes County with significant amounts in Berrien and Brooks County as well. At Colquitt EMC, we try to deploy our crews in a manner that is equal to the number of outages and work...

We see your requests for estimated restoration times. Unfortunately, it is not something Colquitt EMC can do for several reasons. As with other concerns faced during this outage, we will try to explain as best we can. For many rural electric cooperatives, providing an estimated restoration time (ERT) can be challenging. This breakdown explores the reasons behind this, highlighting the unique challenges that rural cooperatives, such as Colquitt EMC, face during major storm events. 1....

My fellow members, We are on Day 7 of our Hurricane Helene Power Outage Restoration Effort. I want to begin this update by thanking our membership for your continued support as we navigate this power outage together. We understand how difficult it is to be without electricity. Now more than ever, we rely on electricity in almost every facet of our daily lives. We understand the toll this is taking on you. Many Colquitt EMC employees are still without power to their homes as well. We have...

My fellow members, Colquitt EMC continues to work diligently to restore power to all of our affected members. I would like to provide you with some good news: As of last night, the final three substations that did not have transmission service are back online. As a reminder, at its peak, 13 substations of our 29 substations were without service. Through the combined efforts of Georgia Transmission and Georgia Power, all transmission service was restored effectively. In my 28 years of...