5/20/2010 10:57:21 AM

Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) has announced that it is adding purchased power agreements from two additional renewable energy facilities to its portfolio of resources: a Pennsylvania wind project and a landfill gas generation project in Delaware.

Under separate purchased power agreements, ODEC and Hughesville, Md.-based Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) have agreed to purchase the energy and associated environmental attributes for the next 18 years from the Stony Creek Wind Project near Somerset, Pa. The project which began commercial operation in 2009 and has a nameplate capacity of 52.5 megawatts (MW) is owned and operated by E.ON Climate and Renewables (EC&R).

The agreement was facilitated by the National Renewables Cooperative Organization (NRCO), an entity that acts as a clearinghouse for large-scale renewable projects. NRCO is owned by 24 power supply and distribution cooperatives throughout the United States. Both ODEC and SMECO are founding members of NRCO.

ODEC has also finalized a purchased power agreement with Ameresco, an energy service company, for 1 MW of energy and associated environmental attributes from a landfill gas generation power plant in Sussex County, Del. ODEC is buying the output of an expansion of an existing landfill gas to energy plant that Ameresco developed and operates under contract with the Delaware Solid Waste Authority (DSWA).

We are pleased that ODEC had the opportunity to add the Stony Creek Wind Project and the Sussex County landfill generation facility to our portfolio of purchased power resources, said Jackson E. Reasor, ODEC President and CEO. Our mission is to continue to build and diversify our sources of power supply to assure that the over 500,000 consumer-members of our 11 member electric distribution co-ops throughout the Mid-Atlantic
region have the reliable and affordable electricity they need for their homes, farms and businesses now and for decades to come.

In addition to its purchased power contracts with the Stony Creek Wind Project and the Sussex County landfill generation facility, ODEC has similar contracts with the Armenia Mountain Wind Farm Project in Pennsylvania, with the Criterion Wind Power Project under construction in Garrett County, Md., with a landfill gas generation project in Worcester County, Md., and a hydroelectric facility in Bath County, Va.

Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) is a generation-and-transmission cooperative that provides wholesale power to 11 member electric distribution cooperatives(including NNEC)in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. ODEC and its member systems are not-for-profit electric cooperative that are owned by the consumer-members they serve.