DEC Continues to Restore Power to Nearly 18,000 Members
February 24, 2026/
Delaware Electric Cooperative crews are working around the clock to restore power to members. In an update on their Facebook page, an additional 20,000 homes had power restored overnight – 40,000 since the blizzard began on Sunday. DEC officials say the damage is more extensive than initially through – especially in the most rural parts or their service area and nearly 18,000 members are still without power. DEC has called for help – with additional crews called in from multiple Virginia utilities as well as additional Delaware contractors. DEC hopes to restore power to about 10,000 more homes by this evening, but say outages will likely continue into Wednesday and Thursday.
Additional information from DEC:
Crews are working on the last major circuit outages right now impacting thousands of members in the Angola and Broadkill areas. Many members in those areas should have service restored later today.
Outside of those areas, there are roughly 800 different damage reports across our service territory that our crews will need to address. These issues include hundreds of downed trees and power lines and more than a dozen broken poles. These issues are impacting anywhere from one home to a few hundred.