Virginia

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June 6, 2025

Project & PPA Roundup – NextEra, ENGIE

SparkWire’s Power Project & PPA Roundup, compiling in-service dates and power purchase agreements for renewable and fossil generators, for the two weeks ended June 6.

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May 15, 2025

FERC denies key rate request for $3B Valley Link Transmission Project, launches inquiry

The split decision seeks to strike a balance between incentivizing transmission development with consumer protection, setting a potential precedent for future projects.

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April 30, 2025

East Tennessee Natural Gas requests FERC approval for rate hike driven by $650M system investment

East Tennessee’s capital investments since its last rate case represent over 30% of the total gas plant value, while operating and maintenance expenses have also soared 30%.

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April 29, 2025

Maryland protests shouldering billion-dollar transmission expansion for Virginia data centers

Virginia’s data center boom is sparking a heated interstate dispute over how to assign costs for billions of dollars in grid upgrades.

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April 23, 2025

LS Power’s data center campus expansion plan draws challenge from PJM watchdog

LSP Digital’s proposal to shift Doswell Generating Station’s capacity to a behind-the-meter data center faces opposition from the PJM Independent Market Monitor.

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April 14, 2025

LS Power proposes $1B capacity expansion under PJM fast-track power plan

LS Power’s capacity additions would total 700-MW across the PJM footprint under the grid-operator’s Reliability Resource Initiative.

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April 9, 2025

State consumer advocate challenges $3B Valley Link transmission project rate proposal, citing excessive costs

PJM has designated the multi-state transmission project portfolio as essential to address reliability issues and growing data center loads by 2030.

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March 12, 2025

Behind push for Mountain Valley Pipeline’s $500M expansion project lies a massive gas plant build out by Duke

Mountain Valley Pipeline wants its 0.55 Bcf/d Southgate project greenlit by year’s end, but environmental groups are urging regulators to demand a fresh application.

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March 7, 2025

FERC dismisses complaint against Dominion in greenhouse gas cost dispute, affirming prior ruling

The ruling reinforces FERC’s limited role in disputes that it considers contractual rather than regulatory, even when those disputes involve state-level environmental compliance programs like RGGI.

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