FMEA Sunday Statement Regarding Ongoing Power Restoration Following Hurricane Helene

STATEMENT BY:
Amy Zubaly, Executive Director, Florida Municipal Electric Association

“Since the outset of Hurricane Helene, Florida public power utilities have restored more than 500,000 outages. As of noon today, 11,079 Florida public power customers remain without power.  

Within 48 hours of landfall, more than 99 percent of customers served by Florida public power utilities had power.

We greatly appreciate the assistance of 46 public power utilities from 11 states, including Florida, who have made this restoration effort possible.

While public power crews in areas with outages continue working around the clock in the most challenging areas to restore power to every single customer, other public power crews have been able to assist in neighboring communities served by cooperative utilities.

Our thoughts are with all the communities in Florida and the Southeast that have been impacted by this unprecedented storm.”