Renewables

Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) aims to provide our member-owners with safe, reliable, sustainable, and affordable electricity.

ODEC has entered several long-term power purchase agreements for energy generated by wind and solar resources. These PPAs help us provide this energy to our members at the lowest possible cost. We also sell renewable energy credits related to these purchases to our Members and to non-members.

In 2021, ODEC announced a goal to achieve net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 (PDF), with an interim goal to reduce its carbon intensity by 50% from 2005 levels by 2030. ODEC is the second generation and transmission cooperative in the country to set a net zero carbon goal. ODEC also continues to expand its commitment to solar by actively pursuing additional solar resources

Learn about our renewable projects:

2022-2024

• True Green projects began commercial operation
• ODEC purchases power from the projects at a fixed rate, providing energy cost security for its members

2019 & 2020

• ODEC and True Green entered a partnership to develop and build a portfolio of 8 distributed solar projects
• These solar projects will generate approximately 17 megawatts (MW) of solar power across ODEC member service territories
• The projects bring local solar energy to ODEC member communities while at the same time providing regional and energy diversification to ODEC’s generation portfolio

2020

• ODEC entered into a power purchase agreement with Longroad Energy to purchase solar power
• The Foxhound project will provide ODEC 10 MW of solar energy and is located adjacent to ODEC’s Clover Coal station in Halifax County Virginia
• Foxhound began commercial operation in 2023

2015

• ODEC entered into 2 long-term power purchase agreements to buy solar power from separate projects owned by Dominion Generation
• The Clarke County Solar project is a 10 MW solar power facility in Clarke County, VA located in Rappahannock Electric Cooperative’s service territory
• The Cherrydale Solar Project is a 20 MW solar power facility in Northampton County on Virginia’s Eastern Shore in A&N Electric Cooperative’s service territory
• Both projects began commercial operations in 2017

For more than a decade, ODEC has been partnering with private developers to add more than 260 MW of wind generation.

2013

• ODEC’s latest wind contract is with BP Wind Energy’s Mehoopany Wind Farm in Wyoming County in northeastern Pennsylvania
• ODEC began buying over 110 MW of capacity, energy, and renewable energy credits from the project after it began commercial operations in 2013

2009

• In 2009, ODEC executed its second wind power agreement to buy the entire output from Criterion Wind Project located in Garrett County, Maryland
• The 70 MW project employs 28 Clipper 2.5 MW Liberty turbines and began commercial operations in 2010
• ODEC executed a third contract with E.ON’s Stony Creek Wind Farm, which is currently in operation in Somerset County, Pennsylvania
• ODEC purchases capacity, energy and renewable energy credits from this 32.5 MW facility

2008

• In 2008, ODEC executed an agreement to buy 50% of the output of AES Corporation’s Armenia Mountain Wind project in Bradford and Tioga counties in north central Pennsylvania
• The project began commercial production in 2009, with the completion of 67 General Electric 1.5 MWs SLE wind turbines that can produce 100.5 MWs