Robert Walton of UtilityDive reports on grid damage caused by Helene.
Recovery efforts continue after Hurricane Helene knocked out power to about 6 million customers and devastated communities in the U.S. Southeast. In some areas served by rural cooperatives, utility leaders warn it could be weeks before service is restored.
“The consumers of electric cooperatives are in areas that are more remote, more rugged, more difficult to restore,” National Rural Electric Cooperative Association CEO Jim Matheson said in a call with reporters Tuesday afternoon.
Electric cooperative customers are about 1.25 million of the total outages, and more than half of those have had power restored. But about 500,000 cooperative customers remained without power on Tuesday afternoon, Matheson said.
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