SUNDAY NIGHT UPDATE: NEARLY HALF OF ALL CUSTOMERS NOW HAVE POWER

PICKENS, South Carolina — Power has been restored to over 27,000 Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative members since Tropical Storm Helene devastated our service area.

An estimated 51 percent of our members (approximately 37,550 in total) remain without service, down from a peak of 90 percent on Friday morning.

This remains a multi-day outage recovery operation.

Below are specific outage numbers by county:

Anderson: 4,302

Greenville: 4,359

Oconee: 15,278

Pickens: 13,491

Spartanburg: 43