Update: Power has been restored to all but 1,910 residents as of 12:15 p.m. (11/29/23)
Original Story: Over 5,000 Jefferson County residents are still without power today (Wednesday). That’s down from the over 12,000 residents without power at 11:00 a.m.
Officials with Appalachian Electric say a switch that feeds the Piedmont and Dandridge substations failed which caused the outage. Crews are working to make the repairs and get power restored.
Over 5,300 Dandridge residents and over 6,100 residents in the Piedmont Road area are affected.
Due to the power outage, Jefferson County School’s closed today and AEC’s phone system is experiencing technical difficulties.
