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January 16, 2024
TVA, BrightRidge ask customers to reduce electric usage where possible

JOHNSON CITY – The Tennessee Valley Authority and BrightRidge are asking customers to reduce their electrical usage where possible as temperatures continue to fall. The measure, formally called Emergency Load Control Plan Step 20, is an appeal to customers to begin voluntary load reductions where possible.

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January 11, 2024
UPDATE DELAYED DUE TO WEATHER …. BrightRidge asks customers to hold electronic payments Saturday, notify of outages Monday and Tuesday

JOHNSON CITY – Technology upgrades will impact the BrightRidge SmartHub mobile application and other electronic payment systems on Saturday while automated metering system improvements will temporarily impact automated outage notification on Monday and Tuesday.

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A man with sunglasses and a cap stands next to the open door of a BrightRidge utility truck, holding a cone, with company logos visible on the vehicle.
December 21, 2023
BrightRidge holds the line on costs for customers despite inflation; Posts clean audit

JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge has directly discounted nearly $5.1 million in electric sales to its customers over the last three years, while maintaining well below national average electric rates, launching a Broadband division and assembling its 33rd clean audit in a row, according to the latest accounting review of the company…

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A group of adults and children pose with a large check for $12,500 from BrightRidge to the Boys & Girls Club. The event takes place indoors, in a classroom or community center setting.
October 11, 2023
BRIGHTRIDGE, TVA DONATE $82,500 TO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB TO EXPAND STEM LAB

JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge and the Tennessee Valley Authority joined together Tuesday afternoon to donate $82,500 to the Boys & Girls Club of Johnson City/Washington County to expand a STEM lab with a 48-student waiting list. “We are pleased to be able to provide this donation, eliminating a waiting list…

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October 11, 2023
Brightridge, Pike Electric host Live Line Training for area First Responders

JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge was honored to host 200 area police, fire and emergency medical first responders, line worker students and other community members on Tuesday for a Live Line Demonstration event conducted by Pike Electric. BrightRidge would like to thank Pike safety trainers Andy Cleary, Mike Blevins and Kevin Hamm…

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September 11, 2023
Rolling roadblock slated for Tuesday afternoon on North Roan Street

JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge contractors will be conducting a rolling roadblock impacting all lanes from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in the vicinity of Hillside Road and Hemlock Lane on North Roan Street. The work is part of a continual BrightRidge program to improve electric system reliability…

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Five men posing around a large model light switch with a BrightRidge logo in front of a solar panel array on a grassy field.
August 22, 2023
BrightRidge, TVA, Silicon Ranch & LightWave Solar ‘Flip the Switch’ on new Solar Learning Lab

JOHNSON CITY – Officials with BrightRidge, Silicon Ranch, LightWave Solar and the Tennessee Valley Authority joined together Tuesday afternoon to Flip the Switch on a new Solar Learning Lab at BrightRidge’s 2600 Boones Creek Road campus. The Solar Learning Lab will produce 500 kW of energy, sufficient to power the…

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June 28, 2023
BrightRidge Board approves balanced FY 2024 budgets; budgets $1.3 million for customer credits

JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge unanimously adopted a balanced Fiscal Year 2024 budget this week without an increase in local electric or broadband rates. With the budget balanced, the BrightRidge Board of Directors voted to return $1.3 million to residential and small commercial customers through July bill credits.

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June 14, 2023
BrightRidge honored by TVA for investment in energy saving programs

JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge was honored at is regular Board of Directors meeting this week with the 2022 Investing in Our Future Award from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for its exceptional efforts to support eleven local schools in TVA EnergyRight’s School Uplift program. “Our Energy Services personnel are constantly looking for…

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