Dominion’s Back Door to Keep VA Gas Plants Running Past 2045

Last week we told you Dominion Energy cleared its first hurdle for the monster 3,000-megawatt (3 gigawatt) Cumberland Energy Center in Cumberland County, Virginia (see Dominion 3 GW Gas Plant Clears First Hurdle in Cumberland, VA). Now the greens have noticed something that's been staring them in the face since 2020: Virginia's flagship climate law — the Virginia Clean Economy Act, or VCEA — supposedly bans new fossil fuel plants and orders every existing one shut down by 2045. So how on earth is the state's biggest utility proposing the second-largest gas plant in the entire country? Simple. The law has a back door, and Dominion has already walked through it once. Canary Media, a green-funded outlet, published a piece Monday wringing its hands about exactly that. We read it so you don't have to — and frankly, we enjoyed every minute.

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