SUMNER COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Communities surrounding Nashville will likely soon have a say in how Nashville Electric Service operates.
A bill on Gov. Bill Lee’s desk will give several counties a seat on the board for NES following the January ice storm.
“We have over 50,000 folks in Sumner County that I serve that are served by an entity where they have no voice whatsoever,” House Majority Leader William Lamberth said during a legislative committee meeting last week. “And that happens, obviously, throughout the state, in different ways.”
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The bill in question is SB 2102, which requires an electric utility board to expand if it provides services outside the corporate limits of its home municipality. NES currently provides electricity not only to Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County, but also portions of Cheatham, Rutherford, Sumner and Wilson counties…