GROWTH

Investing Today to Power Tomorrow

From agriculture to manufacturing, our territory is attracting investment and opportunity. In 2024, REC supported dozens of development partnerships and connected over 4,000 new members.
 

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Powering Progress:
How REC is Fueling Louisa County's Growth

“REC shows up — consistently, authentically, and with purpose. They’ve helped us power more than lights. They’ve helped power economic progress.”

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Growth by the Numbers

  • 4,044 new meters added. 
  • 20 GW load forecasted for future data centers. 
  • $44 million state and federal grants. 
  • 28 economic development partnerships supported. 

Business is Booming -- and REC is Supporting Positive Growth

REC delivered more than 4 billion GW of power in 2024. Behind the scenes with significant growth forecast over the coming years. 

Learn how REC’s Economic Development team works to support development in counties that want to grow. 

REC Economic Development

REC STORIES

REC crews completed the weeklong, tedious task of restoring outages caused by the 36-hour windstorm that thrashed REC's 22-county service territory.

REC Continues Restoration Efforts

Tuesday | March 6, 2018
Crews continued to tackle devastating damage in REC's western territory today, replacing poles, setting transformers and rebuilding electric lines bat...
REC and an additional 200 mutual aid workers from Virginia and out-of-state electric co-ops have restored more than 92 percent of the outages caused b...