Cookeville Electric Restoring Power As Rain Continues
Cookeville Electric has restored most of its circuits across town with less than 2,000 customers without power at 5pm. Electric Department Director Carl Haney said crews are now working on working on getting some subdivisions back online as well as isolated outages. Crews will be on standby for more issues as the precipitation continues Monday […]
Burying Electric Lines On 10th Would Be Costly
As Cookeville’s 10th Street prepares for widening, many question if power lines along the entrance way could be buried. Cookeville Electric Director Carl Haney said many of the 10th Street power lines have five times more voltage than your regular power line. Haney said the price tag to bury those lines can skyrocket. “Once you […]
New Light Fixtures Coming To Cedar Avenue
Portions of Cookeville’s Cedar Avenue will start looking brighter over the next few months. Electric Department Director Carl Haney said decorative light fixtures will be installed from 2nd to 7th Street. “Those are the same lights that are used in the downtown, around the square, in the Cityscape projects that we have going on through […]
Two Cookeville Power Outages Over Weekend
Two circuit outages through the Fourth of July weekend caused some Cookeville residents and businesses to lose power. Electric Department Director Carl Haney said the outage Friday took over three hours to repair. “It was caused by a transformer failure in one of our subdivisions,” Haney said. “When that happened it also caused a piece […]
