North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation
NCEMC, the power supplier for most of the state's member cooperatives, provides reliable, affordable and safe electric and related services, including:
- Operation of a load management system
- Engineering and construction management
- Power supply planning
- Demand Side Management (DSM) planning
NCEMC acquires the power it sells to its member cooperatives in a number of ways, including:
- Ownership of 61.5 percent of Catawba Nuclear Station Unit 1, and a 30.76 percent interest in the common facilities of the Catawba Nuclear Sation in York County, SC
- NCEMC-owned-and-operated peaking generators on the Outer Banks: one at Buxton (15 megawatts) and the other at Ocracoke (3 megawatts)
- Purchases from investor-owned utilities, such as Progress Energy, American Electric Power and SCANA
- NCEMC recently built two natural gas peak-load power plants in Anson and Richmond counties, with a combined rating of approximately 600 megawatts of capacity.
NCEMC Board Officers
President
R.W. "Chip" Leavitt, Jr., Brunswick EMC
Vice President
Donald H. Spivey, Pee Dee EMC
Secretary-Treasurer
Mitchell L. Keel, Four County EMC
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