SEQUACHEE VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CASE STUDY ABOUT: Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative oversees electrical distribution lines in Southeastern Tennessee. Founded in 1939, the utility provides power to more than 35,000 residents in Bledsoe, Grundy, Marion, Sequatchie and Van Buren counties. CHALLENGES: Before adopting the dataVoice outage management system, Sequachee Valley used a competing solution, which failed often and prevented dispatch personnel and linemen from seeing an accurate picture of ongoing outages. Often times the system overestimated the number of members without power. “We were getting calls from our board members saying ‘What’s going on? Half of the system is out’,” Danny Kirkendoll, vice president of engineering and operations for Sequachee Valley,

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