CVEA provides electric service to over 3,800 business and residential customers in the Copper River Basin and Valdez regions of the state CVEA covers a large area: 160 miles north to south and 100 miles east to west; provides service from Valdez to Kenny Lake to Sourdough to Sheep Mountain, dependent on fossil fuel (50% of the annual generation requirement), CVEA is not interconnected electrically to any other utility.