Safety, From the Ground Down

Celebrating Safe Digging Month w This is a valuable opportunity to reflect on the importance of damage prevention and it creates an occasion to draw the general public’s attention to ensure underground utilities are marked prior to excavation. Virginia 811, as with...

Association Hosts Annual Finance and Accounting Conference

More than 30 accounting and finance professionals from Virginia, Maryland and Delaware electric cooperatives, along with other industry partners, gathered in Virginia Beach for the VMD Association’s annual CRAFT (Cooperative, Regulatory, Accounting, Finance, Tax)...

Fiber Broadband Association’s OpTIC Path™ Workforce Training Program Grows with New Support in Eastern U.S.

S&N Communications and VMDAEC are the latest to offer fiber technician training course The Fiber Broadband Association recently announced that S&N Communications and the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric...

New Sussex County Substation to Improve Reliability for Delaware Electric Cooperative Members

Delaware Electric Cooperative completes construction on a new substation in Sussex County, improving reliability for its members. The Dorey Substation was energized in late October and will provide power to approximately 2,100 homes in the Georgetown area for decades....

EMPOWER Broadband Breaks Ground on $154 Million Project

With several ceremonial shovels full of Southside Virginia soil on October 20, EMPOWER Broadband, Inc., commemorated a significant stride forward in leveling the playing field between rural and urban communities by launching a significant expansion of its fiber...