Tri-County Electric Cooperative to resume broadband expansion

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Tri-County Electric Cooperative (TCEC) and Conexon are readying to begin installing more fiber-optic cable here come the spring with $3.5 million in county funding that is specifically earmarked to connect Duke Energy customers. The $3.5 million, which county officials committed to TCEC in November 2022, is part of the $4.1 million in FEMA reimbursement that it recently received for hurricane debris cleanup expenditures and that traces back originally to the