Rockwood Electric Utility
P.O. Box 108 , Rockwood, Tennessee, United States

Rockwood Electric Utility (REU) is a not-for-profit, municipally owned utility dedicated to providing Electric service to residential, commercial, industrial, and public facilities.  REU traces its beginnings to 1939 when the City of Rockwood purchased electric systems in Rockwood and Kingston from the Tennessee Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and agreed to serve those cities and the surrounding communities consisting of portions of Roane, Cumberland, and Morgan counties.  Operation and control of the power system is vested in the Electric Power Board as outlined in the City Charter for Rockwood.

Statistics

• Over 14,500 electric customers; over 11,500 residential
• Revenue from power sales in excess of $33 million
• All power is purchased from TVA; 5 year rolling contract
• Forty-three (43) full-time employees

Power System

• Four (4) substations; delivery voltages of 161 kV
• 12.47/7.2 kV, 3-phase system distribution system
• Over 700 miles of single- and three-phase primary

GIS Based Architecture

UtiliTrak is a geospatial utility information system developed by CSA using Smallworld GIS technology. A geographic information system (GIS) is a database management system customized to manage the data required to map the location of objects relative to the earth’s surface. UtiliTrak’s geospatial capabilities enable it to map a utility’s complete service area seamlessly. As an information system, UtiliTrak has a fully functional database management system. A GIS based system like UtiliTrak offers utilities the ability to model geospatial relationships, perform geospatial analysis based on the geospatial model, and view the relationships and analysis through a combination of maps and reports. Geospatial modeling and analysis capabilities are only available in a GIS-based system like UtiliTrak.