Duck River Electric Membership Corporation senior lineman Dean Batey, of the Coffee County and Manchester area, died from injuries sustained in a fall as he tried to escape a bucket truck fire on July 9. An investigation is currently underway to determine the cause of...
There are currently just over 300 DREMC members, mostly in the Columbia area, without power this morning. Overnight about 100 employees of DREMC and contract crews worked to restore electric service after a long and hazardous day working to rebuild our damaged system, while also...
[caption id="attachment_25879" align="alignright" width="306"] This photo was taken along Hurt Road in Chapel Hill. A pole was broken beneath the cross arms after a fallen tree weighted down the line and caused the pole to snap.[/caption] OUTAGE UPDATE: At 5:30 p.m. today, some 5,600 DREMC members...
The majority of today's outages are caused by equipment damage inside TVA's Marshall County substation, which supplies power to much of the western DREMC service area. Lightning, fallen trees and downed power lines took a toll on the power grid earlier today affecting approximately 9,000...
Today's thunderstorm brought heavy rain and wind gusts through the DREMC service area leaving widespread power outages in Manchester affecting over 3,400 residents. Damage to DREMC's system includes three substation breakers out, multiple trees are down, which left several spans of electric wire down and poles...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are experiencing telephone system issues this morning affecting all inbound calls to all DREMC offices in nine locations. All support providers have been notified, and DREMC is awaiting their assistance. If you need to get in touch...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Duck River EMC's ten Washington Youth Tour winners are gearing up for a week-long tour of our nation's capital! Watch the special feature produced by News Channel 5 that describes what these students will experience on the tour! The...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]DREMC has begun full deployment of the advanced meters following a successful pilot testing period in Coffee and Moore counties. The cooperative has employed a licensed contractor, Allegiant Utility Services, to change out existing electric meters across our service area with...
DREMC has scheduled a software update of its member database to begin at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, May 21. We expect the update to take approximately one hour. During this time, our members may not be able to pay their bills using our website or over...
Ten area high school juniors will tour Washington, D.C., June 8-14 as winners of DREMC’s Washington Youth Tour Writing Contest. Students wrote short stories on “Electric Cooperative: Going Beyond the Wires.” Winners of DREMC's writing contest are shown in the photos below. They are, from left,...
