Virginia’s Largest Electric Plant to be Powered by Marcellus Gas
Yesterday Dominion, a huge natural gas and electric utility as well as a midstream company, announced plans to build the State of Virginia's largest natural gas powered electric generating plant--in Greensville County, VA. (By the way, Dominion won the Award for Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility at the Northeast Oil & Gas Awards on Wednesday in Pittsburgh. Well done!) The $1 billion project will produce 1,600 megawatts of electricity using combined-cycle technology--enough electricity to power 400,000 homes. Dominion will use Marcellus Shale gas to power the plant, provided by Williams' Transco pipeline. The plant will also be fed by a second Marcellus Shale pipeline--Dominion's own Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a $5 billion, 550-mile pipeline slated to run from West Virginia through Virginia and into to North Carolina (see Dominion Commits to Major New Marcellus/Utica Pipeline Project). Between just these two projects, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Greensville County electric plant, Dominion is pumping an astounding $6 billion into the economy of the Mid-Atlantic region, made possible by the miracle of fracking and the amazing Marcellus Shale. In addition to building the natgas-powered electric plant, Dominion also plans to build a large-scale solar project at the Greensville County site, which will make so-called environmentalists happy. Perhaps a spoonful of solar sugar will help the natgas medicine go down--in a most delightful way...
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