BARC Board President Keith Swisher reported on the challenges and highlights for the cooperative in 2022. Swisher reported the cooperative submitted its first general rate case application in over 20 years. The rate change will be implemented over two years, having...
In June, 36 students followed an electric cooperative tradition of more than 60 years and traveled to the nation’s capital for a week of education, entertainment and engagement with teens from across the U.S. After two years of alternate locations, VMDAEC staff were...
Photo by Jim Robertson, VMDAEC.
More than 200 compete at annual lineworker rodeo in Virginia Journeyman teams and individual apprentices from electric cooperatives, investor-owned and municipal utilities, contractors and the U.S. Army demonstrated their skills and knowledge while competing for...
BARC Electric Cooperatives crews travel through snow.
On March 4, crews from Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative, Southside Electric Cooperative, Northern Neck Electric Cooperative and Powell Valley Electric Cooperative traveled to Kentucky and parts of Tennessee to assist sister co-ops following destructive storms. At...
Chris Botulinski
World traveler finds fulfillment in serving others by Jim Robertson, Staff Writer “We’re not trying to make money off our neighbors. We’re just trying to provide the best service we can to our members, and we’re trying to be as frugal with that money as we possibly...
