Delaware Electric Cooperative has completed construction on a new substation in Sussex County that will improve reliability for its members. The Dorey Substation was energized in late October and will provide power to approximately 2,100 homes in.
Delaware Electric Cooperative has named Rob Book as its acting president and chief executive officer. Book was selected for the top job by the co-op’s board of directors in November. He previously served the Greenwood-based co-op as senior vice.
The Delaware Electric Cooperative has its second new CEO in just over a year. Rob Book takes over as president and CEO of the member-owned electric utility that powers more than 112,000 homes, farms and businesses in Kent and Sussex Counties. He replaces Greg Starheim, who stepped in when Bill Andrew retired in July 2021, after 16 years at the helm; now Starheim is retiring.
Delaware officials recently laid out the plan requiring car manufacturers to only sell zero-emission vehicles in a series of public meetings, but not everyone commenting during the Nov. 15 meeting was on board. “Everything has been done by executive.
In its effort to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, Old Dominion Electric Cooperative is constructing five new solar projects, four of which will be in Virginia, that will generate 22.5 megawatts of power. ODEC, a nonprofit power generation and transmission provider for nine electric cooperatives in Virginia, one in Maryland and one in Delaware, will construct all five projects through power purchase agreements with EDF Renewables.