Dominion just can’t kick its fossil fuel addiction

Flush with success after the SCC ignored legal deficiencies and approved the company’s plan for a large gas peaker plant in Chesterfield, Dominion Energy is pushing its luck with a proposal for a massively bigger gas combined-cycle plant. The 3,000 MW facility slated for Cumberland County would be Dominion’s biggest fossil fuel plant ever, the […]

By: Ivy Main

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: May 20, 2026

Words: 1,370

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago


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Flush with success after the SCC ignored legal deficiencies and approved the company’s plan for a large gas peaker plant in Chesterfield, Dominion Energy is pushing its luck with a proposal for a massively bigger gas combined-cycle plant.

Dominion announces plans for new 3-gigawatt gas plant in Cumberland County

The 3,000 MW facility slated for Cumberland County would be Dominion’s biggest fossil fuel plant ever, the size of three nuclear reactors. …

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