Empower Broadband is aggressively moving toward the construction phase of its $154 million broadband project serving Halifax, Mecklenburg, southern Brunswick and southern Charlotte counties, and has taken the next step in the process by hiring a firm to assist in 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...
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...
Electric cooperatives had strong participation on Jan. 13 at the Virginia Agribusiness Council’s Legislative Appreciation Banquet, a major event timed to coincide with the start of the General Assembly session. Cooperative officials and staffers occupied several...
