News Release

For Release March 2, 2007

Contact:  Mark Rollenhagen, Operations Manager, Traverse City Light & Power

    Phone: (231) 357-3411

Contact:  Jim McIntyre, Executive Vice President, Knorr Marketing  

                Phone: (231) 947-9707     Cell: (231) 342-4900

                E-mail: jimm@knorrmarketing.com 

TC Light & Power Sends Help

(Traverse City, Michigan) — The late winter storm that rolled through Michigan

yesterday may have missed most of Traverse City, but it has wreaked havoc with utility lines in other parts of the state. So, Jim Steele, Lead Lineman and Josh Patzer, Journeymen Linemen left today in Traverse City Light & Power’s largest bucket truck to assist Thumb Electric Cooperative to restore power to the residents of Ubly and the surrounding area.

“We do what we have to do” said Mark Rollenhagen, Operations Manager for L&P. “We expect that they will be down there for three or four days,” he added.

Recently, other crew members of L&P have helped Cherryland Electric, and also were sent to the New Orleans area to assist with the Katrina disaster.

Traverse City Light & Power (www.tclp.org) is a community-owned, community- focused municipal utility that offers energy at low rates in the region to over 10,000 customers in Traverse City, and parts of Blair, East Bay, Elmwood, Garfield, Peninsula and Paradise townships.