Career stories from women in the energy industry Last fall, a group of young women took advantage of an opportunity to see firsthand what it’s like to work on a utility line crew. They climbed poles, strung wire, operated a bucket truck and used a hot stick on a...
Having a sense of adventure might not immediately come to mind as an attribute one should have working for an electric utility. But it’s a pretty good one if you aren’t tasked with touching thousands of volts of electricity, and that’s the case for Emily Reitz, a...
As lead instructor for Southside Virginia Community College’s Power Line Worker Program, he has helped guide more than 375 students on the path to successful “powerful careers.” The SVCC Power Line Worker Program was the first of its kind in Virginia. The program was...
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...
Cindy Musick earned a forestry degree and her father was in the electric utility industry. Still, she acknowledges knowing little about electric cooperatives before joining Rappahannock Electric Cooperative. “I have never felt so valued, and listened to, and had the...
Just a few weeks before Christmas, on a mandatory conference call, Ryan Barrack learned that the bank he had worked at for more than a decade was being sold. “What does tomorrow hold for my family?” he thought. Later, as he and his wife pulled into a retail parking...
