Dominion Energy IncRegulators order Dominion to shift transmission costs to data centers, reducing recovery from residential customers and potentially lowering revenue.

Virginia regulators have ordered Dominion Energy to create a tariff that more directly assigns certain transmission costs to data centers and other large-load customers, reducing the burden on households and small businesses. The State Corporation Commission's final order in Dominion's latest rider T1 case requires the utility to develop a policy framework that could save Virginians hundreds of millions of dollars, according to Governor Abigail Spanberger's administration. Dominion had sought to recover $1.5 billion through the rider, which would have cost the average customer about 94 cents per month after an earlier formula shift. The commission cited the proposed Valley Link transmission line, a 115-mile, 765-kilovolt project from Lynchburg to Culpeper, as an example of infrastructure that could be charged more directly to large users. Environmental advocates said the decision sets an important precedent against residential subsidization of data center transmission buildout.
Dominion Energy IncRegulators order Dominion to shift transmission costs to data centers, reducing recovery from residential customers and potentially lowering revenue.