Rappahannock Electric Cooperative was one of seven businesses to receive an “All-Star” award for their 2021 workplace campaign from the Rappahannock United Way. For the 2021 REC Workplace Campaign, between payroll deductions and special prize drawings, employees from...
Storms ripped trees from the ground in Warrenton. (Photo Courtesy: REC)
High winds and heavy rains struck Virginia on June 22, putting at least 20,000 cooperative members out of power. With the help of mutual aid crews, most power was restored quickly, though the nature of the scattered outages left some without electricity for a day or...
The solar farm developed near Hartly, Del, is powering 260 homes. (Photo Courtesy: DEC)
A new utility-scale solar farm near Hartly is now powering hundreds of homes served by Delaware Electric Cooperative. The solar farm was energized in late May and is generating enough clean energy to power 260 homes in Kent County. The project was built by Tangent...
Youth Tour participants gather before meeting with state legislators.
Central Virginia Electric Cooperative held its 85th annual meeting on June 22. Board Chair Kinckle Robinson called the meeting to order at Nelson County High School, while Bruce Maurhoff, CVEC’s chief operating officer, delivered the invocation. Robinson said CVEC’s...
Craig-Botetourt Electric Cooperative held its annual meeting in person on June 4 with approximately 40 members in attendance. CEO Jeff Ahearn informed everyone that CBEC’s new Ironto substation and related advanced metering infrastructure pilot project have helped to...
Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative held a brief but successful 2022 annual meeting.
For the past 90 years, the North Carolina Electric Meter School and Conference has attracted meter personnel from the electric utility industry to present information on common problems, standard practices, procedures and new technologies. VMD Association instructors...
