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JONESBOROUGH – BrightRidge officials cut the ribbon on its 31st substation Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m., placing a $4.45 million facility into service to substantially reduce the burden on heavily-loaded circuits serving West Johnson City and Jonesborough. The substation, located at 1123 East Main Street in Jonesborough, enhances the system’s…
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge directors approved moving forward Wednesday with an 8-year, $64 million investment to bring competition to the regional broadband, cable television and phone service marketplace. By unanimous vote, the Board, after three years of study, agreed to move forward with a phased plan that will offer up to 10 Gb…
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge board of directors adopted a $196 million operating budget Tuesday for the fiscal 2019 year, passing along the Tennessee Valley Authority’s 1.8 percent rate increase along with a rate policy adjustment designed to maintain BrightRidge’s operating margin. For an average residential customer, the rate…
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge has been recognized by the American Public Power Association as a platinum-level reliable public power provider (RP3). ® Neil James, Manager of Distribution Operations at Santee Cooper, South Carolina and chair of the Association’s RP3 Review Panel, presented the designations during the Association’s recent Engineering…
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge has concluded its 2018-2019 Calendar Contest and is proud to announce the following winners: Brooklyn James, Caden Cain, Henry Ward, Avery Wondergem, Grant Gentry, Sarah Leerssen, Charlotte Dowdy, Isabella Greene, Isaac Mussard, McKaleigh Guinn, Mason Burgess, Graciela Mondragon, Stephen Coffey…
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge continues to make two forms of easy payment services available for residential customers, with sign-up required by the end of May to qualify. “We fully understand that the peaky nature of Northeast Tennessee weather makes for equally peaky, and painful, power bills when super-hot days in summer or super-cold…
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge was recognized as an EnergyRight Solutions Top Ten Performer in Total Program Savings and a Top Performer in the EnergyRight Solutions for Industry program by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Tuesday afternoon. The awards recognize BrightRidge for providing opportunities for residential and…
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge is hosting a calendar contest for all 4th graders currently enrolled in public schools, private schools, and homeschool programs in the BrightRidge service territory. All artwork submissions received by May 4th, 2018 will be judged, and the top 12 pictures selected will be featured in a calendar to be printed and distributed…
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge will close Lone Oak Road daily between Herrin Drive and South Greenwood Drive next week as BrightRidge crews and contractors prepare the right-of-way for installation of a new distribution line. The new line is essential to improving redundancy and reliability in this segment of the distribution system.