Quick Questions: Who is your Utility? And Where is Dendron VA?

by: Eileen

Thu Feb 19, 2009 at 07:48:45 AM EST

Whoever pays the electric bill in your house knows the answer to this question.  Who is your utility?  

Depending on where you live in Virginia you may be a customer of one of the nine Electric Coops in Virginia that collectively want to build a new coal plant in Surry County. Please let us know if you are customer of any of the following Electric Coops. E-mail stopsurrycoalplant@gmail.com, letting us know who you are and which Coop you belong to.  

BARC Electric Cooperative:
• Serving Bath, Alleghany and Rockbridge Counties

Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative:
• Serving Augusta, Rockingham, and Shenandoah Counties

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative:
• Serving Albemarle, Caroline, Culpeper, Essex, Fauquier, Goochland, Greene, Hanover, King & Queen, King William, Louisa, Madison, Orange, Rappahannock, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Town of Bowling Green

Northern Neck Electric Cooperative:
• Serving King George, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Stafford, and Westmoreland

Southside Electric Cooperative:  **LARGEST CO-OP in VA**
• Serving Amelia, Appomattox, Bedford, Brunswick, Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway, Pittsylvania, Powhatan, Prince Edward, Prince George and Sussex counties, and the towns of Altavista, Blackstone, Crewe, Hurt, Kenbridge and South Hill; plus the City of Petersburg

Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative:
• Serving Brunswick, Mecklenburg, Charlotte, Pittsylvania, Greensville, Southampton, Halifax, Sussex, Lunenburg

Prince George Electric Cooperative:
• Serving Dinwiddie, Isle of Wight, Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex Counties

Community Electric Cooperative:
• Serving City of Suffolk, Isle of Wight and Southampton Counties, along with portions of Sussex and Surry Counties

ANEC:
• Serving Accomack and Northampton on Virginia's Eastern Shore

Also heads up... MEETING NOTICE: ODEC will be holding a Public Forum meeting on the proposed Surry coal plant (aka "Cypress Creek Power Station") on Thurs., Feb. 26, 6:30-8:30 pm, at the L.P. Jackson Middle School, 4255 New Design Road in Dendron, the soon to be hometown for the coal plant, and one sitting just 18 miles as the crow flies from downtown historic Williamsburg.