Grid Reliability Would Remain Strong After Planned Retirements of Wateree & Williams Coal Plants COLUMBIA, S.C. — Expert analysis filed Wednesday reveals that Dominion Energy’s new long-range energy plan will generate far more electricity than it needs by 2033 if it keeps its two large coal plants online, creating significant … [continued]
Proposed Merger Fails Public Interest Scrutiny NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy — two of the nation’s highest polluting utilities with record-high profits — submitted applications to the North Carolina Utilities Commission, South Carolina Public Service Commission, and the Virginia State Corporation Commission to merge into one single utility. The proposed merger … [continued]
Commercial electricity sales in Virginia increased by nearly 30.0 million megawatthours (MWh) between 2019 and 2025, much faster growth than in any other state except Texas, a much larger state, according to our Annual Electric Power Industry Report. The growth in sales of electricity in Virginia is largely driven by a concentration … [continued]
As volatile fracked gas prices and energy demand rises, customers worry about paying more for less. COLUMBIA, S.C. — Last night, dozens of South Carolinians testified before the state Public Service Commission at two back-to-back hearings, expressing concerns that the proposed Canadys gas power plant may drive up already skyrocketing … [continued]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dominion Energy South Carolina (DESC)’s proposed 2026 IRP doubles down on volatile fracked-gas while continuing to cling to expensive coal power, asserts Sierra Club’s analysis of the utility’s filing, which was made publicly available in the docket on Wednesday. “While South Carolina families feel the squeeze of energy costs like … [continued]
The 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is finally beginning to deliver electricity to the US grid, having survived the Trump chopper (cropped, courtesy of Dominion Energy).
The 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind has survived the Trump chopper and is delivering electricity to the US grid.
The debate over who should pay to power data centers is taking center stage all across America, from Virginia to Montana.
The gigantic, 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project can resume construction, handing yet another loss to US President Donald Trump (cropped, courtesy of CVOW).
The massive, 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is one of five offshore projects to survive the Trump chopper, adding another 2.6 gigawatts to the nation’s clean power profile.
National security emergency or not, the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project will keep pumping out the clean kilowatts, at least for the time being (courtesy of Vineyard Wind).
Oh Lordy, where to begin? On December 22, the Trump administration urgently dropped a stop-work order on not one but five offshore wind farms spanning five different states on the Atlantic Coast, citing an extremely dire national security emergency. Oh, really? How dire? Clear and present danger dire? Not that … [continued]
The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project has been spared from the Trump chopping block for now, and offshore stakeholders are already anticipating an industry-wide comeback.
