LOVINGSTON, Va. (AP) - Two initiatives are underway at the Central Virginia Electric Cooperative to reduce electricity losses and outages.
One initiative involves the creation of a computerized vegetation management system to reduce tree- and vegetation-related accidents that can cause outages. The other will identify and try to prevent losses from theft and operating the distribution system.
The Lovingston-based cooperative has created two new full-time positions to lead the initiatives.
Senior vice president Bruce Maurhoff tells The News & Advance (https://bit.ly/RkqJXH) that about half of the cooperative’s outages are due to tree-related accidents.
Maurhoff says the cooperative loses about 7 percent of the wholesale electricity that it buys.
The cooperative serves about 35,000 customers in 14 counties.
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Information from: The News & Advance, https://www.newsadvance.com/
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