The TUB electric department receives a lot of questions about our system and its operation. The purpose of this article is to answer the more frequently asked questions.
Power outages happen for a wide variety of reasons.
Many of these are compounded by storm events such as high winds or heavy rains, while others are not related to the environment. Below is a list of some of the more common causes of electrical outages. Any time a tree limb falls from a tree and lands across two or more of the wires on an overhead power pole an outage will occur. Obviously, this happens more during storms, when the winds and rain break limbs from the trees. We limit the amount of damage caused by trees with a vigorous trimming program, but in Tullahoma trees are likely to always be a problem for power reliability.