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AECI Utility Solutions and six Arkansas distribution electric cooperatives have dispatched 177 lineworkers and support personnel, along with equipment, to assist with outage restoration efforts in Mississippi and Tennessee following Winter Storm Fern.
Clay County Electric of Corning, Craighead Electric of Jonesboro, South Central Arkansas Electric of Arkadelphia and Woodruff Electric of Forrest City crews are assisting Tombigbee Electric Cooperative in Mississippi. AECI Utility Solutions of Little Rock is assisting Tallahatchie Electric Power Association in Mississippi. This combined effort includes 124 lineworkers and support personnel.
An additional six AECI Utility Solutions right-of-way crew members are headed to Tishomingo County Electric Power Association in Luka, Mississippi.
Crews from First Electric of Jacksonville, North Arkansas Electric of Salem and AECI Utility Solutions are headed to Tennessee to assist Pickwick Electric Cooperative and Cumberland Electric Cooperative with power restoration efforts. This team consists of 47 lineworkers and support personnel.
The Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas comprise electric distribution cooperatives; Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. (AECI), a Little Rock-based cooperative that provides services to the distribution cooperatives; and Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. (AECC), a generation and transmission cooperative. The distribution cooperatives provide electricity to more than 1 million members, or customers, in Arkansas and surrounding states.
