ShareLovingston Nelson County, VA From CVEC Operations Manager Alan Scruggs and Engineering Manager Robert Harris have completed an intensive program in electric utility management with the University of Wisconsin – Madison. The Robert I. Kabat Management Internship Program (MIP) is a series of workshops offered by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in conjunction with [...]
ShareNelson County, Virginia After a day of very strong winds, some gusting past 70 MPH at Wintergreen, power is being restored to areas that lost it due to the winds. CVEC has been busy all day working the lines restoring power to those without it. Here’s their latest update as of 6PM Friday evening: 6:00 [...]
ShareArrington Nelson County, Virginia Central Virginia Electric Cooperative (CVEC) announced that a recently-installed photovoltaic energy generation unit reached a milestone at the end of July 2010. The 2-kilowatt (kW) solar unit generated 1 megawatt-hour of energy during its first 100 days of service. The energy generated in the first 100 days is enough to power [...]
ShareLovingston Nelson County, Virginia Central Virginia Electric Cooperative announced that many of its 30,000 Cooperative member-owners will receive a nice surprise during the month of June, a credit on their electric bill or a check from CVEC in the mailbox. Earlier this year, the CVEC Board of Directors voted to return to its members $1.6 [...]
ShareArrington Nelson County, Virginia You’ve probably seen a weird looking sight in the skies over Nelson lately. A black helicopter with a crazy looking thing dangling below! Not to worry, we aren’t being invaded! It’s part of Central Virginia Electric’s annual tree trimming program to eliminate problem tree branches from power lines. “We will be [...]
ShareNelson County, Virginia Some folks are still without power across Nelson County, but the largest majority are not here in the county. Wherever you are, if you are a CVEC customer. the easiest way to keep up to date is by visiting their Facebook Fan page. CVEC is constantly updating outage reports there. We also [...]
Share Arrington Nelson County, Virginia Central Virginia Electric Cooperative Prepares for Winter Storm February 4, 2010 – 2 PM Central Virginia Electric Cooperative (CVEC) is preparing to respond to power outages that may result from the winter storm that is predicted to arrive in Virginia on Friday morning. Line trucks are fitted with tire chains [...]
ShareSchuyler Nelson County, Virginia We first told you about Jack Eggleston’s hydroelectric plant near Schuyler, VA in our June 2009 printed edition of Nelson County Life Magazine. Our story, Sweat Equity, was written by Aaron Lee and photographed by Lee Luther, Jr. Recently Central Virginia Electric Cooperative in Arrington reached an agreement with Blue Sky [...]
ShareCVEC Electric Service in Appomattox County Lovingston, VA, March 2, 2009 CVEC Electric Service Update – 3 PM Lovingston, VA, March 2, 2009 – The number of reported outages on the CVEC system is presently at 1991. Line crews have been working to restore power but progress is slow going with over a foot of [...]
