Sustainable, reliable power for 1,000,000 homes.
Cricket Valley Energy Center (CVEC) in Dover, New York, uses a highly efficient, environmentally-responsible process of converting clean-burning American natural gas into electricity, producing power for nearly one million homes—and economic benefits for the community. This website is part of an extensive public outreach program that has been in place since the beginning of the project permitting process to inform and involve the residents of Dover and surrounding neighbors.
Serving the Community
Cricket Valley Energy Center had a visit from the local fire department, J.H. Ketcham Hose Company. This year was tough for the all-volunteer fire department as many of their fundraisers, including their biggest, the Annual Dover Carnival, was canceled due to the pandemic. CVEC heard there was a need and asked the firefighters to provide a list of some tools that could help them on their rescues. They submitted a list and the items were procured. The Dover Volunteer Fire Department members stopped by the facility to say thank you and show off their new tools.
Cricket Valley Energy Center is honored to be able to help the local fire department and looks forward to a continued relationship with the Hose Company.
CVEC had the honor of participating in The Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse’s One Too Many 5k. (CPCA) has advocated for abused and at-risk children throughout the Mid-Hudson Valley since 1973. The 5K event took place virtually and on-site on Friday, September 28, 2020. Rachel Johnson, Director of Development for CPCA, joined in on the windy walk around the site. Many employees participated both on-site and virtually by walking, running and donating.
To top off the event Collin Brown, one of the virtual CVEC runners, won first place for the fastest time with 22:45.
CVEC was super excited to be an event sponsor but more importantly to be given the opportunity of helping the children in need because “one abused child is One Too Many."
The second Thursday of each month, the folks at CVEC gather at the Center of Compassion to help unload and put away food for their food bank. However, November was a little different last year.
First, the delivery was double the size of any other month last year in preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday and season that follows. Kudos to the folks at the Food Bank for their amazing coordination and organization. The food is delivered, sorted, and ready for distribution within hours of arrival.
Also, with the help of Advanced Power, CVEC was able to donate a refrigerator/freezer to replace a unit that had recently broken during a power outage. The unit was immediately put to good use housing the larger than average delivery.
As always, the volunteers at the Center were extremely grateful for both the timely gift and the labor efforts CVEC can provide each month. CVEC is proud to partner with the Center of Compassion for such a worthy cause.
With traditional fundraisers canceled due to the pandemic, Dover High School’s Class of 2023 turned to bottle redemption to generate funds. CVEC stepped up with a $300 starter fund and an employee recycling program to help the class leverage CLYNK to raise money and steward the environment.
CVEC joined the Chamber of Commerce to fill wish lists in its Adopt-a-Family program in the challenging 2020 holiday season. Don Ross, CVEC Facility Manager, rallied the employees and the team filled wish lists for two families—and then some—with toys, clothes and much needed household items for a much happier holiday.
The Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse (CPCA) in Poughkeepsie has officially welcomed its newest staff member in its fight against child abuse—a specially trained golden retriever/yellow Labrador mix named Peace. Don Ross, Facility Manager, and Samantha White, Facility Administrator, visited CPCA to welcome the new therapy dog with a gift certificate to Chewy.com to start him off in his new job helping to reduce anxiety, fear and trauma for children.
CVEC Project Manager Scott Curry, gave a presentation to the Dover High School’s “Introduction to Engineering Design” class about how projects like CVEC are developed. A big thanks to Jessica Zangerle for welcoming us into her classroom!
