A look back at the Virginia Electric and Power Company (VEPCO).
12-18-1989 (cutline): Virginia Power's headquarters, at One James River Plaza downtown, has been transformed into a huge billboard, with lighted windows serving as lettering. This reminder was shining for motorists on the Manchester Bridge earlier this week.
12-28-1988 (cutline): Brightly colored lights and displays are highlights of the Christmas season. Among the more sobering displays this year was the "Hugs Not Drugs" message spelled out in the windows of the Virginia Power corporate headquarters at One James River Plaza.
11-24-1988 (cutline): This message, "hugs not drugs," shines from Virginia Power's corporate headquarters at One James River Plaza. It can be seen by motorists on Interstates 95 and 195 and area bridges. The letters come from adjusting lights and window shades in the offices. The words are a message from the utility and New Kent High School's Studentss Against Drink Driving chapter.
10-09-1971 (cutline): Marvin Cephas delivers VEPCO bills in West End. Cost-cutting program is described as successful.
A Virginia Power employee looks over work at home sites in 1986.
02-12-1982 (cutline): A Virginia Electric and Power Co. crewman inspects the rigging on the generator of the utility's Chesterfield power station Unit 4. The turbine portion of the generator has been detached for its regularly scheduled five-year inspection. The 166,000-kilowat, coal-burning unit was removed from service Jan.19 to have environmental control equipment installed.
08-05-1990 (cutline): A 240-megawatt cogeneration plant will begin supplying steam to the Sonoco Products plant on Commerce Road in Richmond later this year. Its electricity, which will go to Virginia Power, represents only a fraction of the almost 4,000 megawatts the utility expects by the end of the decade from similar private generation units across the state.
06-16-1986: VEPCO building
07-11-1991 (cutline): Gary Michael directs Virginia Power's emergency response system from the utility's Central Division Operations Center in Henrico County.
07-13-1989 (cutline): With the diagram of The Virginia Power system in the background, Temple Taylor worked the operations center switching console yesterday. The diagram shows transmission lines and equipment undergoing repairs.
01-19-1977 (cutline): Firemen douse blaze at Virginia Electric and Power Co. substation on Deepwater Terminal Road. About 4,900 customers in South Richmond were without power for about an hour following fire today.
02-28-1991 (cutline): This certainly isn't recommended for anyone afraid of heights and is definitely not something for amateurs. Perched in cherry pickers, two Virginia Power workers attended to business on a utility pole yesterday. WTVR's antenna tower is in the background.
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