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Generator Upgrades Campus Safety

A hundred years after electricity first came to the Woodberry Forest campus, the school successfully installed a backup generator to provide power in case of an outage.  The multi-year project was completed on March 16, 2017, and will allow the campus’s central academic buildings and residential halls to operate as normal using power supplied by the generator whenever power service is dropped.
 
 
 
“Our islanding agreement with Dominion Power, which allows the school to put our generator-supplied electricity on Dominion's infrastructure, is only the second such arrangement with Dominion in the Commonwealth of Virginia,” says Reed Davis ’95, Woodberry’s director of operations.  “The end result of the effort is that we will be in a much better position to meet the needs of the boys when we next face a hurricane, snow storm, derecho, or other weather event.”    
 
Many alumni, faculty, and staff will remember multi-day outages in the past, such those resulting from the derecho in June, 2012, and Hurricane Isabel in September, 2003. Neither storm, however, interrupted programming; during the hurricane outage, every class met as normal, and during the windstorm outage, sports camp continued with its regular schedule.
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