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JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge’s Board of Directors adopted a $287 million fiscal year 2027 budget Tuesday that includes no local rate increase while reinvesting in electric reliability and broadband expansion.
A late Friday afternoon power outage will impact 642 customers in the Boones Creek area as BrightRidge crews replace a utility pole damaged earlier in the day by a motor vehicle accident.
JOHNSON CITY — Neighbors of BrightRidge’s Midway substation, in Jonesborough, and the Phipps substation, on Bailey Bridge Road, may notice demolition work near those facilities as obsolete structures are removed.
JOHNSON CITY — BrightRidge has received an unmodified, or “clean,” audit opinion for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, continuing a 35-year legacy of clean independent audits and full public transparency.
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) have marked the fifth anniversary of their Home Uplift partnership, a program that has brought home energy enhancements to hundreds of lower income BrightRidge homeowners.
JOHNSON CITY, TN – BrightRidge Board of Directors approved a 2.5% electric rate increase at their Tuesday afternoon meeting, with the increase effective for the October 2025 billing period of the utility’s fiscal 2026 budget year.
JOHNSON CITY -Just six years from startup, BrightRidge Broadband is now serving more than 20,000 homes and businesses with up to 10Gbps symmetrical fiber to the premise available at more than 73 percent of BrightRidge Electric serviceable addresses in Washington and Sullivan counties.
JOHNSON CITY — BrightRidge presented a $82,248 contribution to the Washington County Board of Education at its Thursday night meeting, continuing BrightRidge’s commitment to Washington County schools through the Solar Schools Initiative.
JOHNSON CITY — As bitter cold temperatures persist throughout the Southeast United States, the Tennessee Valley Authority has issued a voluntary call for energy conservation as TVA posted near record electricity demand of 32,040 megawatts this morning.