SCC greenlights proposed Chesterfield gas plant

Members of Friends of Chesterfield pose for a picture outside of the county board of supervisors meeting on April 24, 2024. Photo by Jessica Sims

RICHMOND, Va. — Today after years of public opposition from local community members and residents throughout Virginia, the State Corporation Commission issued an order approving a certificate of public convenience and necessity that will allow Dominion Energy to build its proposed gas power plant in Chesterfield. Based on Dominion’s estimates, the plant will cost ratepayers at least $8…

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Part two: Why Dominion Energy’s bad track record on energy efficiency matters for its proposed Chesterfield gas plant

This is the second of two blogs on the proposed methane gas power plant in Chesterfield, which Dominion Energy calls the Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center or CERC. Here we’ll look at Dominion Energy’s failure to meet their energy efficiency requirements and why that’s important, and we’ll show that there is a cleaner and more affordable way for Dominion to produce electricity.

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Community speaks out after Moriah Energy Center issued air quality permit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOctober 11, 2024 CONTACTJuhi Modi, North Carolina Field Coordinator, juhi@appvoices.orgDan Radmacher, Media Specialist, dan@appvoices.org ROUGEMONT, N.C.  — On Thursday, Oct. 10, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality approved an air quality permit for the Moriah Energy Center, a proposed liquefied methane gas facility in Rougemont, N.C., that would…

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