Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative

10323 Lomond Dr, Manassas, Virginia, United States | Electric Power

Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative is a locally based and locally owned electric distribution system headquartered in Manassas, Virginia.

Office Locations/Service Territory

  • NOVEC has office locations located throughout our service territory in Manassas, Gainesville, Leesburg and Minnieville.
  • NOVEC's service territory encompasses 651 square miles with more than 6,880 miles of power lines.
  • NOVEC provides reliable electric service to more than 164,000 homes and businesses located in Clarke, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William and Stafford counties, the City of Manassas Park and the Town of Clifton, all in the state of Virginia.
  • NOVEC is also building a new service center in Loudoun County in order to better serve our customer-owners in the area.
  • County Fact Sheets: Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, Stafford

Customers

  • NOVEC is a not-for-profit corporation. As a cooperative it is owned and controlled by its customer-owners — the customers who purchase energy from NOVEC.
  • NOVEC's customer-owners elect a board of directors which governs all Cooperative business affairs.
  • The majority of NOVEC's customers are residential and small commercial, however we provide electric service to numerous large commercial retailers such as AOL, Potomac Mills Outlet Mall, NOAA's Mount Weather Facility, Vulcan Materials Company, Verizon, AT&T, Doane Food Products, Treasure Chest Advertising and several Luck Stone Corporation quarry locations.

NOVEC History

Early Beginnings

Tri-County Electric Cooperative was formed in 1939 to provide electricity in rural areas of Loudoun, Fairfax and Clarke counties. Prince William Electric Cooperative first served customers in Manassas and rural areas in Prince William, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun and Stafford counties in 1941. On January 1, 1983, the two consolidated and became Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative. Prior to Tri-County and Prince William electric cooperatives, most Northern Virginians who did not live in cities or towns had to live and work without electricity, because delivering power to remote farming regions reduced  investor-owned utilities’ profit margins. Consequently, rural America lagged behind thriving Industrial Revolution cities.

That economic dichotomy changed during the Great Depression when President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress in 1935 to pass legislation to help electrify more than five million farms. With funding from the newly established Rural Electrification Administration, farmers formed co-ops to obtain “the electric.” Jubilant celebrations occurred across the country when the new co-ops—including Tri-County and Prince William—flipped the switch to power rural America for the first time.

Power Supply

Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative, one of the largest electric cooperatives of its kind in the United States, is a customer-owned and locally based distribution system that provides electricity to residents and businesses throughout Northern Virginia. NOVEC’s service territory encompasses 651 square miles and includes portions of Clarke, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, and Stafford counties, the City of Manassas Park, and the Town of Clifton.

NOVEC is a distribution electric cooperative. NOVEC purchases wholesale power through the PJM marketplace. PJM Interconnection coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in 13 states and the District of Columbia. NOVEC's long-term energy strategy is to deliver to its customers a locally controlled energy supply that is reliable, environmentally responsible, and competitively priced.

Company Details
Company NameNorthern Virginia Electric Cooperative
Business CategoryElectric Power
Address10323 Lomond Dr
Manassas
Virginia
United States
ZIP: 20109
PresidentStan Feuerberg
Year Established1983
Employees500
MembershipsNA
Hours of OperationMonday-Friday: 8:15AM–5PM
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