Demand for power from proposed data centers is already poised to swamp Rappahannock Electric Cooperative‘s system, but the customer-owned utility says it has a way to avoid hits to its current ratepayers’ bills.
Rappahannock’s proposal to protect ratepayers calls for a special rate for big users in the cooperative’s mainly rural territory, which stretches from the Middle Peninsula’s Essex County west to Frederick County in the far northwestern corner of the state and includes parts of Hanover, Goochland, Louisa and Caroline counties.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
