Most of us recognize a power blink when it happens. The lights flicker. The TV resets. The microwave clock starts flashing 12:00. It's annoying and it's easy to assume something is wrong.
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Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica's electric infrastructure last autumn. America's electric cooperatives answered the island nation's call for help, in part with a crew of linemen led by REC…
If your electric bill looks different this month, you’re not alone. It doesn’t mean you did anything wrong, and it doesn’t reflect any changes to your REC electric rates. Extreme cold, like we’ve…
REC teams use many tools to ensure reliability for member-owners, from the very visible, like the Cooperative’s yellow trucks and online outage map (outagemap.myrec.coop), to tools that are truly…
When Carty Yowell returned to his hometown of Madison, Va., in 2008, one of the first things he did was enroll in Rappahannock Electric Cooperative’s The Power of Change. Back then, it was known…
Your electric bill shows how much electricity your home used and what it cost to deliver that electricity to you. Let’s break it down.
How Electricity is Measured Electricity is measured…