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The Tennessee Valley Authority has notified DREMC that mandatory load reduction may be required to help ensure the grid’s stability during these unprecedented temperatures. TVA has not communicated when the DREMC service area may be impacted. These outages are anticipated to last 15 minutes at a...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="38091" img_size="full" alignment="center" style="vc_box_rounded" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text]Grant areas are noted in blue. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]On Sept. 12, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart McWhorter announced the state will award United Communications with six grants totaling $53.4 million to invest in...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (DREMC) announces the election of William (Will) Wilson to serve a three-year term as a representative of Marshall and Giles counties. Wilson, a Marshall County native, was appointed by the DREMC board of...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Duck River Electric is proud to introduce the 11 high school juniors who have won scholarships through our annual writing contest. Each winner will receive a $1,000 scholarship from DREMC to be applied towards their higher education. Winners...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Three schools served by Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (DREMC), Marvin Wright Elementary in Maury County, Huntland School in Franklin County, and Westwood Middle School in Coffee County have been awarded a combined total of $11,500 in...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Adaline Watkins and Thadeo Martinez, both of Franklin County, were among more than 45 high school juniors from across the state to gather in Nashville for the annual Youth Leadership Summit sponsored in part by Duck River...

  Shelbyville, TN—Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (DREMC), Shelbyville Power, Water, and Sewerage Systems (Shelbyville Power), and Lewisburg Electric System (LES) have signed a mutual aid agreement to provide emergency response services to one another in the event of widespread damage to their respective electric systems. This...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 19, 2022  -- Vanderbilt University, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Nashville Electric Service (NES), Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (DREMC), and Silicon Ranch Corporation broke ground today on a new solar farm that is now under construction in Bedford County, Tennessee. The 35-megawatt (MWAC) Vanderbilt I...

  Columbia, Tenn. – December 10, 2021 – Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (DREMC), an electric provider serving 2,500 square miles of middle Tennessee, and United Communications, Middle Tennessee’s leading provider of fiber and fixed wireless internet services, announced today that they are collaborating to expand broadband access to underserved...