Bristol Tennessee Essential Services Chief executive officer Mike Browder will officially accept the Excellence Award given by the State’s annual Excellence in Tennessee recognition program. Wednesday’s awards banquet will be held in Nashville and BTES gets the prestigious award for quote “its overall performance, continued growth and focus on keeping its best-practice process at a high level”. The program is overseen by a state group known as the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence, who judge organizations and companies in Tennessee. BTES has been using the group’s guidelines for steady organizational improvement for over 20 years. BTES has over 30-thousand electric power customers in Sullivan County and some receive high speed Internet, telephone and cable services. (bg)