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Oct 2, 2023

Reid retiring as Dominion Energy Services president

Carter Reid, executive vice president, chief of staff and corporate secretary of Dominion Energy, as well as president of Dominion Energy Services, will retire Jan. 1, 2024, the Richmond-based utility announced Monday. Carlos Brown, Dominion’s senior vice president, chief legal officer and general counsel, will be promoted[...]

Oct 2, 2023

Dominion Energy shareholders receive mini-tender offer

Dominion Energy is urging its shareholders to reject a “mini-tender” offer from TRC Capital Investment, the Richmond-based Fortune 500 utility announced Monday. Toronto-based investment firm TRC Capital offered to purchase up to 2 million shares of Dominion Energy’s common stock for $44 per share in cash, approximately 4.4[...]

Shannon Pierce. Photo courtesy Virginia Natural Gas
Oct 2, 2023

Virginia Natural Gas names chief admin officer

Virginia Natural Gas has named Shannon Pierce as its vice president of strategy and chief administrative officer, the Virginia Beach-based utility announced Monday. Pierce, a native of Surry, most recently served as vice president of growth and chief external affairs officer at SouthStar Energy Services, a subsidiary of VNG̵[...]

Sep 25, 2023

Dominion offshore wind farm hits next federal benchmark

Dominion Energy’s proposed offshore wind farm on Monday hit another major milestone. The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced it has completed its environmental assessment of the project, planned 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, a little more than two years after the review began. The nearly 700-pag[...]

Sep 19, 2023

Dominion pitches state on $70M battery storage pilot

Dominion Energy Virginia is asking the state to allow it to test two technologies that it says could lengthen the time its batteries can electrify the grid from an average of four hours to longer than four days. In a 117-page filing made Monday with the State Corporation Commission, Dominion said its Darbytown Storage Pilot [&he[...]

Sep 5, 2023

Dominion announces $14B sale of three natural gas companies

Richmond-based Fortune 500 utility Dominion Energy is selling its three natural gas distribution companies to Canadian pipeline and energy company Enbridge Inc. in a $14 billion deal announced Tuesday afternoon. Enbridge on Tuesday announced that the sale creates the largest natural gas utility franchise in North America. The co[...]

Kyle Mullins is founder and CEO of Yorktown-based Coastal Wind Services, a startup focused on maintaining and inspecting wind turbine blades. Photo by Mark Rhodes
Aug 30, 2023

Gathering power

While working on a cellular tower a few years back, Kyle Mullins got what he describes as the “call of a lifetime” — an invitation to work on the first two pilot wind turbines for Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. A Navy veteran who received a telecommunications technical certification from Texas [...]

Aug 30, 2023

Energy 2023: EDWARD H. ‘ED’ BAINE

Baine’s steady rise to the presidency of Dominion Energy’s Virginia operations began when he joined the Fortune 500 utility as an associate engineer 28 years ago.  But the seeds of his career were firmly planted when Baine, who grew up on a Lunenburg County tobacco farm, received a full scholarship to Virginia Tech, from wh[...]

A rendering of the Dulles Solar and Storage project at Washington Dulles International Airport. Image courtesy Dominion Energy.
Aug 22, 2023

Dominion, Dulles solar project to power 37,000 Va. homes

A massive solar project that will soon begin to take shape at Washington Dulles International Airport will not only have the ability to power 37,000 Virginia homes, but will also send a message to travelers about the power of clean energy, officials said Tuesday during a ceremonial groundbreaking for the 835-acre Dulles Solar a[...]

Jul 10, 2023

Dominion sells interest in Md. LNG facility for $3.5B

Dominion Energy Inc. has sold its remaining interest in the Cove Point natural gas liquefaction facility in Maryland to Berkshire Hathaway Energy for $3.5 billion, the Richmond-based Fortune 500 utility announced Monday. Dominion will clear about $200 million from the sale, according to a company news release. Total after-tax proceeds of about $3.3 billion will […]

Jun 29, 2023

Fairwinds Landing project breaks ground in Norfolk

Developers broke ground Thursday morning on the Fairwinds Landing maritime operations and logistics center supporting Hampton Roads’ offshore wind, defense and transportation industries.  The development project at Norfolk Southern Corp.’s Lambert’s Points Docks in Norfolk is being spearheaded by Fairwinds Landing LLC, a [...]

May 23, 2023

SWVA ‘ideal’ for small nuclear reactors, study says

Sites in Dickenson, Lee, Scott and Wise counties and the city of Norton would be “ideal” for installing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), according to a state-funded feasibility study released Monday. Examining the technical feasibility, safety considerations and economic viability of locating small reactors in [...]

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