Newsletter

As we enter day ten of our restoration efforts, our dedicated crews along with partner crews continue to work 16-hour days to restore power to our members. We currently have (57%) of our members without power. We are making steady progress as we rebuild sections of our distribution system. We ask for your continued patience and understanding as we work through this historic event. Please know that our crews are committed to restoring power to every member.

Last Friday, we had over 58,000 members without power. That is nearly 100% of all Satilla Members. Thanks to the work of our linemen and the support from neighboring cooperatives, right-of-way crews, and contractors, we have successfully restored power to 39% of our membership. Our crews continue to work 16–18-hour days to restore power to our members! Please continue to be patient and pray for our linemen. We have a workforce of 1,200 strong from all over the U.S. aiding us in...

Our crews along with partner crews continue to work 16-18 hour days to restore power to our members! A week ago we had over 58,000 members without power. That is nearly 100% of all Satilla Members. We currently have 41,000 (70%) of our members without power. We are committed to working until everyone of our members power is restored. Please continue to be patient and pray for our linemen. All hands are on deck!

We are currently at 27% of members restored. As of this morning, we have 637 individual outages to address. Each of these represents a unique issue that needs resolving –some of which will take a day and others potentially weeks. Our crews follow a structured process, starting at the substation, then moving to distribution feeders and tap lines, before finally addressing individual service connections, the last step in the restoration process. We can’t give you a specific time because...

Due to the widespread destruction that our area has experienced from Hurricane Helene, we have made the difficult decision to postpone Satilla’s Annual Meeting of Members until further notice. This decision was not made lightly. However, given the widespread damage to our electrical distribution system and the thousands of Satilla members that are without power, we felt strongly that we should focus 100% of our resources and efforts toward storm restoration. Thank you for your...

Our lineman along with crews from Pike Electric, Collective Strategic Resources, Sumter Utilities, Southwestern EC, Western Illinois EC, Greystone Power, Snapping Shoals EMC, Owen Electric Cooperative, Walton EMC, GEMC, Asplundh Tree Expert, and Townsend are working extremely hard to restore power. The work is challenging due to the extensive number of trees and debris that are in contact with power lines. We understand that these outages are causing hardship for most of our members. Our...

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Satilla EMC will be performing maintenance on our phone system on Saturday, April 27th from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. During this time, we will be unable to accept phone calls. We will be monitoring our system for outages. Outages can still be reported on the Satilla app or web portal. If you have an emergency during this time, please call 911. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.

Satilla REMC is attempting to locate former members whose capital credit checks were issued in 2018 but have been unclaimed. A list of these members and instructions for claiming these funds will be posted on April 1st at our corporate office located at 928 GA Hwy 32 E, Alma, GA, for review from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The last possible date to claim capital credit funds is September 30, 2024.

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Attention! Satilla EMC will be performing year-end maintenance on our billing systems Sunday, December 31st at 8:00 A.M. through Monday, January 1st 2023 at 8:00 A.M. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.