Dominion offshore wind farm delivers first power to the grid

Dominion Energy’s $11.5 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project off Virginia Beach‘s coast on Monday reached a milestone, delivering its first power to the grid.

The marker follows the Richmond-based Fortune 500 utility’s installation of CVOW’s first turbine tower in January. The project’s turbines are about 380 feet tall and have a capacity of 14.7 megawatts.

The utility says currently there are two fully constructed turbines, and a third is under construction. Dominion also installed a third and final offshore substation in the past month.

Dominion spokesperson Jeremy Slayton said in a statement that the power generation adds “much-needed electricity to help serve the fastest-growing power demand in the country.”

He noted that CVOW will continue to deliver more power to the grid as additional turbines are installed, with full completion expected in early 2027. Once operational, CVOW will consist of 176 wind turbines generating up to 9.5 million megawatt-hours per year, or enough energy to power up to 660,000 homes.

“CVOW is critical to Virginia’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to meet the increasing power needs of a growing economy and population, the largest data center market in the world and among the largest military installations and defense manufacturers in the country,” Slayton said.

A Jan. 30 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed the project’s cost had increased by about $300 million, tied to additional estimated costs associated with tariffs and a December 2025 stop-work order by the Trump administration.

The U.S. Department of the Interior in December 2025 issued stop-work orders on five East Coast offshore wind projects already underway, including CVOW. In response, Dominion sued the federal government.

On Jan. 16, a federal judge allowed Dominion to continue work on CVOW as it pursues its legal challenge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

This week, the Trump administration reached an agreement to pay French company TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing two offshore wind projects off the coasts of New York and North Carolina, The Washington Post reported.