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As of 8:00 p.m. last night, six and a half days after Hurricane Helene caused extensive damage in North Florida, SVEC had successfully restored electric service to all but about 500 of its over 28,000 consumer-members. Most remaining outages involve…

Power has been restored to over 27,300 (95%) SVEC consumer-members in the six days since Hurricane Helene blew through Florida's Suwannee River Valley as a Category 4 storm.

Power has been restored to over 25,000 (89%) SVEC consumer-members and the full complement of 1,482 lineworkers, tree clearers and support staff are working in all four of the co-op’s counties again today.

1,482 workers from Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative (SVEC), contractors and assisting utility companies are working this morning to restore power. That’s 43 times the number of the cooperative's employees that work in the field on a normal day.

SVEC has restored power to 59% of its consumer-members served by substations that have transmission service, except for the Burnham substation, which became energized late this afternoon. The Blair substation remains without transmission service.

Power has been restored to more than 13,500 consumer-members (47.1%) as SVEC enters its third day of restoration efforts.

Power has been restored to over 6,000 out of the 28,848 (20.9%) SVEC consumer-members who lost power on Thursday night due to Hurricane Helene. Crews are facing challenges due to the large number of trees and limbs entangled with or…

Approximately 850 workers from SVEC, contractors and mutual aid cooperatives are in the field this morning, simultaneously performing damage assessments and power restoration.