Arrington Nelson County, Virginia Central Virginia Electric Cooperative (CVEC) will begin installation of fiber in Appomattox by September, providing communications for a smart grid system and delivering high speed internet to its members. Appomattox was selected as the first stop due to the lowest cost to serve based on a nearly $1 million grant from […]
Arrington Nelson County, Virginia Central Virginia Electric Cooperative (CVEC) will be employing cutting-edge drone technology from June 11-16, 2018 to complete this year’s annual inspection of its transmission infrastructure. Though CVEC conducts some of its inspections from the ground, using linemen on foot or in trucks, many areas of CVEC’s 36,000 miles of line cut […]
Arrington Nelson County, Virginia Wednesday Coronal Energy, a leading independent power producer focused on utility-scale solar and storage projects, and Central Virginia Electric Cooperative (CVEC), a member-owned electric distribution cooperative, celebrated the commissioning of the Palmer and Martin solar centers in central Virginia. Governor Ralph Northam joined public officials, CVEC’s board, landowners, and representatives from […]
Afton / Batesville Update : 3:06 PM EDT CVEC is continuing to work on a downed line in the south part of the county. “Still working on Piney River. Three-phase line was down,” Melissa Gay with CVEC told us early Saturday afternoon. As of 3:06 PM the CVEC outage map showed no customers in the […]
Arrington Nelson County, Virginia This is a verbatim press release from CVEC on Friday afternoon – January 19, 2018 Central Virginia Electric Cooperative (CVEC) has a growing need for high-speed communications to many points on its electric distribution system. With the addition of a fiber network, CVEC will be able to better incorporate smart grid […]
Arrington Nelson County, Virginia Release via CVEC: The Board of Directors of Central Virginia Electric Cooperative (CVEC) recently authorized $1.48 million in capital credit refunds to Cooperative member-owners in December. This is the eighth consecutive year that CVEC has issued capital credit refunds reaching a total of nearly $17 million returned to members. CVEC is […]
Info via CVEC: CVEC has received another notification from AEP, our transmission service provider, of a required 6 hour outage on the transmission line that serves the Piney River Substation. This work is essential to maintain safe and reliable power to our consumers. To limit the outage time for our members, CVEC crews will temporarily […]
Piney River Nelson County, Virginia Information via CVEC: CVEC has received notification from AEP, our transmission service provider, of a required 12 hour outage on the transmission line that serves the Piney River Substation. This work is essential to maintain safe and reliable power to our consumers. To limit the outage time for our members, […]
Lovingston Nelson County, Virginia Updated 12:05 AM As of roughly 11:35 PM all power has been restored. Central Virginia Electric says problems with an AEP feeder line have cause a little over 1100 customers to be without power primarily in the eastern and southern sections of Nelson County. “AEP has an outage on the transmission […]
Beech Grove Nelson County, Virginia 10:25 AM power is back on. Around 9:40 Wednesday morning we began seeing Facebook posts that some folks in the Beech Grove and Old Stoney Creek Road areas of Nelson County had lost power. A quick check of the CVEC outage map confirmed that 178 people were without power. No […]
