As a child, on the rare occasions the power went out in her Jamestown home, Lavolia Rhodes could lie in bed and hear the Berkeley Electric Cooperative truck pull up. She’d listen to the linemen working on a nearby transformer and could fall asleep knowing that electricity would be restored when she awoke the next morning. So, of course, when her 14-year-old heating and air condition system struggled to keep her home comfortable just as last summer began, she turned to her co-op.
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