Power Engineering internship hunting

I am currently a junior majoring in electrical engineering at a university in Tennessee and I am have been trying to get an internship preferably in a utility setting. I have taken circuit analysis, em fields & waves, signals and systems, analog electronics and electrical energy conversion. I have been doing undergrad research for a professor doing rf/telecom research for a year but I also choose to do this since I was able to get some EE experience early on. I feel like the rf research might be hurting my resume when I have been applying to utility internships. Would it be better to directly email utilities in my state and ask if they have internships available for undergrad Ee’s so I can make a more personal connection with hiring managers?