About Old Dominion Electric Cooperative
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Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) is a not-for-profit, member-owned wholesale power supplier to 11 locally owned and locally controlled electric distribution cooperatives.
ODEC’s mission is to serve its Members. It will provide reliable, safe and economical wholesale electric power sources, continually evaluate and meet the Members’ needs in order to facilitate their growth and strength, and to assure their continued success, take an active role in the development of opportunities advantageous to the Members.
ODEC’s consumer-members are the cooperative equivalent of a customer. However, unlike customers of for-profit “investor-owned” utilities, ODEC’s consumer-members have a voice in how ODEC operates, and, because ODEC is a not-for-profit organization, its consumer-members receive refunds on their electricity bills in the form of capital credits when ODEC revenues exceed costs.
- ODEC’s member cooperatives currently include the following:
- Community Electric Cooperative
- Prince George Electric Cooperative
- Southside Electric Cooperative
- Rappahannock Electric Cooperative
- Northern Neck Electric Cooperative
- Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative
- Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative
- A&N Electric Cooperative
- BARC Electric Cooperative
- Delaware Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- Choptank Electric Cooperative.
ODEC’s service territory covers nearly a third of the landmass of Virginia and 80 percent of the Delmarva Peninsula.
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ODEC serves nearly 400,000 consumer-members in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and owns, co-owns or operates five power generation facilities in Virginia and Maryland, including:
- North Anna Nuclear Power Station, Louisa County, Va. (nuclear; base load; 11.6-percent ownership)
- Clover Power Station, Halifax County, Va. (coal-fired; base load; 50-percent ownership)
- Marsh Run Power Station, Fauquier County, Va. (natural gas with fuel oil backup; peaking; 100-percent ownership)
- Louisa Power Station, Louisa County, Va. (natural gas with fuel oil backup; peaking; 100-percent ownership)
- Rock Springs Generation Facility, Cecil County, Md. (natural gas; peaking; 50-percent ownership)