Author: gina warren

03 Mar

[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="1/2"][vc_column_text]Today's edition of The Shelbyville Times-Gazette includes a story about DREMC working with Normandy officials to upgrade streetlights with LED fixtures. With special courtesy and permission from The Shelbyville Times-Gazette and Editor John Carney, DREMC is sharing...

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24 Feb

[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="1/2"][vc_column_text]The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), in partnership with Bicentennial Volunteers Incorporated (a TVA retiree organization), recently awarded five schools in the Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (DREMC) service area grants totaling $21,500 for STEM (science, technology, engineering,...

09:07 / News
19 Feb

[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 Electric Membership Corporation (DREMC) is joining efforts with the Tennessee Environmental Council for the Tennessee Tree Day event on March 21. Tennessee Tree Day is an annual event that encourages Tennessee residents to order, plant and...

13:34 / News
10 Feb

[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]More than 200 electric cooperative members from across Tennessee were in Nashville Feb. 4 for the legislative conference asking for commonsense rules to protect the state’s electric lineworkers. Representatives from DREMC met with nine lawmakers throughout the day...

12:49 / News
22 Jan

[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 invites high school juniors across the cooperative’s service area to participate in this year’s Washington Youth Tour Writing Contest by describing in 900 words or less how electric cooperatives give their communities “The Power to Be.”...

11:30 / News
11 Jan

Storms with high winds left the DREMC area with three broken poles and over 1,800 members without electricity across the service area. Hardest hit areas were Cowan, Sewanee and Lynchburg. Over 400 remain without power. Extra staff has been called in to help coordinate and speed restoration...

17:06 / News
10 Jan

[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] Proceeds from the plates to fund non-profit that supports lineworkers and their families following an injury or fatality The state of Tennessee recently released a specialty license plate that honors the service and sacrifice of Tennessee’s electric lineworkers....

14:50 / News
29 Jul

[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]Tennessee’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives presented a donation to the Chapel Hill Lions Club at last week’s Super Pull of the South. Representatives from Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (DREMC), Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association (TECA) and nine other Touchstone Energy...

12:21 / News
19 Jul

[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="1/2"][vc_column_text] The Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (DREMC) Board of Directors is pleased to announce a new president and CEO for the member-owned electric cooperative. Scott Spence, a native of the greater Chattanooga area, was offered the position...

11:33 / News
18 Jul

[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_single_image image="30202" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text]The 13-member Duck River EMC delegation on the 2019 Washington Youth Tour was among more than 185 students, teachers and co-op chaperones on the weeklong trip to our nation’s capital. Four chartered tour buses...

10:41 / News