Northern Neck Electric Cooperative members elected three of their peers to serve on NNEC’s Board of Directors. This year’s election occurred at NNEC’s 85th Annual Meeting on April 5. More than 1,000 members participated virtually and voted by returning their proxy...
Lauren Irby and Jeremy Tucker head up Delaware Electric Cooperative’s communications team. (Photo By: Jim Robertson) Equally important as the work electric cooperatives perform is the story of the history co-ops have made and continue to make today. Jeremy...
Spring RoundUp Director training is coming April 14-15 to Virginia Beach. Day one will have NRECA’s Scott Peterson’s Social Media Strategies session that was postponed from last fall along with a session on Building a Values-Based Cooperative with Adam Schwartz,...
After two years of pandemic-related postponements, plans are well underway for the Gaff-n-Go Lineworker Rodeo, to be held May 13-14 at Meadow Event Park in Doswell, Va., near King’s Dominion. Everyone is looking forward to the return of the rodeo, which is one...
Empower Broadband, the wholly owned subsidiary of Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative that is bringing high-speed internet to Southside Virginia, has gotten some national publicity for its efforts. A recent piece from NRECA News described the multiple ways in which the...
Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative has been named a 2022 Tree Line Utility by the Arbor Day Foundation to recognize its dedication to proper urban forest management in its service area. This is the eighth consecutive year that the cooperative has been awarded this...
Delaware Electric Cooperative has announced that 2021 was its most reliable year ever. Members experienced fewer outages in 2021 and, when outages did occur, employees restored electric service in record time. The average outage in 2021 lasted 53 minutes, down from 69...
For the fifth consecutive year, Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative has been named one of the “Best Places to Work in Virginia” by Virginia Business magazine and Best Companies Group. This year saw more than 200 applications from organizations across the state, with the...
