2022 Gaff-n-Go Rodeo participants gathered together at the International Lineman’s Rodeo banquet in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, last weekend. Included are Southside, Central Virginia, Rappahannock and Delaware electric cooperatives along with Dominion Energy and the Army...
EMPOWER Broadband has taken a giant leap toward fulfilling its promise to bring world-class internet access to Virginians in rural Southside communities. EMPOWER, with assistance from Magellan Broadband, its owner-engineer, has secured the services of National...
NRECA held its Regions 1&4 meeting on Sept. 6-8 in Indianapolis. Reported attendance was more than 1,200 participants, which was twice as much as the 2021 meeting at National Harbor, Md. The VMD cooperatives were well represented. John C. Lee Jr., president and...
The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board has voted to elect Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative General Counsel James P. Guy II to serve as its new chairman. “I am honored by the confidence placed in me by my fellow board members. I look forward to working to serving the...
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...