Type | Cooperative |
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Founded | 1940 |
Headquarters | Tasley, Virginia, United States [1] |
Key people | Butch Williamson (President and CEO) Penny M. Fowler (CFO and CAO) |
Website | http://www.anec.com/ |
A&N Electric Cooperative (ANEC) is a utility cooperative that distributes electricity to Accomack and Northampton counties in the state of Virginia along with Smith Island in Maryland, in the southern portion of the Delmarva Peninsula. [2] The cooperative, which was founded in 1940, is headquartered in Tasley, Virginia. [1] The cooperative serves a total of 33,000 members. [3] It is a Touchstone Energy Cooperative and a member of Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC), an electric generation and transmission cooperative. [4] [5] As an electric cooperative, ANEC is owned by the members who it provides electricity to. [6]
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