MD could get hit with $800 million energy bill due to VA data center needs

Marylanders could pay $800M to power Virginia data centers

Just as energy bills have become somewhat more digestible thanks to the change in seasons, the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel is warning that electric utility customers could soon be on the hook for $800 million in transmission upgrades to power Northern Virginia data centers.

Data center sparks plans for more power lines

Dominion Energy wants to build new seven-miles-long high voltage lines in western Chesterfield County in large part to serve a planned hyperscale data center, using four times the electricity the region's biggest data center campus now needs.

MD could get hit with $800 million energy bill due to VA data center needs

A proposal from regional power grid operator PJM could leave Marylanders covering $800 million of a transmission line project aimed at providing power to Virginia data centers.Opposition to the payment structure of a transmission plan has been filed from Maryland's Office of the People's Counsel.David Lapp saying the plan would straddle Maryland ratepayers with costs that mainly benefit northern Virginia data centers."What is uncommon, what is a…

Dominion Seeks to Build Lines for Gas-Fired Power to Va. Data Center - Marcellus Drilling News

Dominion Energy and its operations in Chesterfield County, Virginia (near Richmond) are in the news again, but not for the same reason you may think. We previously told you about Dominion’s project to build a “peaker” electric generating plant in Chesterfield (see Dominion Plans to Build 1,000-MW Gas Peaker Plant Near Richmond, VA). The Chesterfield...