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How Reliable Is Your Tennessee Electric Utility?

Reply (Shutterstock) GREEN HILLS, TN The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink. The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extreme weather events can make such outages dramatically worse. Customers in Tennessee state experienced 4.46 hours without power in 2019 0.24 fewer hours than the national average of 4.7 hours in 2019, which is the most recent information available, according to the EIA.

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Dickson winter weather: Few traffic issues due to caution; DES not at peak electric usage

Dickson winter weather: Dickson County Schools closed Friday Chris Gadd, Nashville Tennessean © James Bendall/For the Herald Highway 46 in Dickson County on Wednesday, Feb. 17. Dickson County Schools will be closed Friday, announced Dickson County Schools Director Dr. Danny Weeks on Thursday afternoon due to inclement weather. County schools daycare will also be closed. Dickson County has seen some “minor fender benders,” but winter weather wrecks have been kept to a minimum due to precautions taken by local businesses and government offices, said the county’s emergency management director on Thursday morning. “We have noticed a bunch of industries and businesses either not opening or running shorter days and that has helped out greatly because it keeps the traffic flow down,” said EMA Director Rob Fisher on Thursday morning. “It gives everybody time and the (Tennessee Department of Transportation) plow crews to get on the roads and scra

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Dickson winter weather: Dickson County Schools closed Friday

Dickson winter weather: Dickson County Schools closed Friday
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Dickson terminal: County OKs lawsuit settlement with developer Titan

Dickson terminal: County OKs lawsuit settlement with developer Titan Chris Gadd, Nashville Tennessean © Chris Gadd/The Herald Opponents of the fuel terminal proposed for Dickson County rallied Thursday night at the county courthouse in Charlotte as the county planning commission voted on the terminal site plan inside. Dickson County reached a settlement Tuesday with Titan Partners, the company planning a large fuel terminal near Interstate 40, about four months after the company filed lawsuits to proceed with the $60 million project. The Dickson County Commission voted 9-1 to settle the lawsuits. Commissioner Johnnie Reed voted no and Commissioner Linda Hayes abstained. It s going to cause a lot of hard feelings,” said Commissioner Cotton Dawson. “And I hope when we vote to do the right thing, it doesn’t make people mad at you so bad it s completely out of reason.

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