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SVEC's electric system suffered the most damage in its history when Hurrican Idalia struck in August 2023. While invoices continue to trickle in, the cost of recovering from Hurricane Idalia currently stands at over $80 million, making it by far the costliest storm the co-op had ever experienced.

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.

SVEC has restored service to over 95% of its consumer-members who lost power because of Hurricane Idalia.

Electric service has been restored to over 24,500 SVEC consumer members who lost power as a result of Hurricane Idalia.

In the six days since Hurricane Idalia barreled through SVEC's system and communities, power has been restored to over 20,500 of the co-op’s consumer members.

Thanks to the hard work of lineworkers and vegetation management crews from SVEC, its contractors and mutual aid electric cooperatives, service has been restored to over 17,000 of the co-op’s consumer-members who lost power due to Hurricane Idalia. That number is expected to increase by morning as SVEC’s system thoroughly checks the status of meters...

As night falls on the fourth day of restoration, power has been restored to all 13 of SVEC’s substations and SVEC, it’s contractors and fellow electric cooperatives are working around the clock to get the lights back on.

The extent of the damage done to SVEC’s electric distribution system is becoming clearer as repair crews make their way through the cooperative’s 2,100 square mile service territory. So far, about 2,500 instances of damaged lines and equipment have been documented, including 411 broken poles.