Dominion Energy Virginia: data centers and residential costs

What the evidence establishes

Regulatory records document how this utility assigns costs to large-load customers. They do not isolate the price effect of each mapped facility. A facility’s stated utility is a source-reported relationship, not proof that a particular grid investment serves only that facility.

Virginia contains multiple electric utilities. State price history includes all providers, and the facilities below are matched only where the registry explicitly names Dominion or Virginia Electric. No service territory is inferred from coordinates.

We have a dated 2024 utility average, not a verified multi-year utility price series. The historical chart below is explicitly a state average. It must not be treated as this utility’s tariff history or as a causal estimate.

Dated regulatory evidence

1. 2026-02-24Regulator explanation published / future effective date

   Regulator explains approved large-load safeguards

   The SCC described its approved separate GS-5 rate class for qualifying large-load customers, including many data centers. The class is scheduled to take effect January 1, 2027.

   Primary source
2. 2026-09-03Regulator explanation published

   Transmission allocation reform explained

   The SCC described amendments in PUR-2026-00056 and a supplemental proceeding, PUR-2026-00131, for direct-connect transmission cost assignment. Its illustration reduced the projected Rider T1 increase for a 1,000 kWh residential customer from $2.90 to $0.94 per month. This is a specific modeled rider comparison, not the total residential bill or a measured facility effect.

   Primary source

These summaries are reviewed snapshots, not an automatically updated docket feed. Future effective dates are kept separate from approval dates.

Virginia residential price history: state context

EIA monthly residential average · U.S. cents/kWh · all providers in the state

Changes reflect multiple forces, including fuel costs, generation, network investment, taxes and tariff decisions. This chart has no facility-effect estimate. View the dated state observations.

Source-reported facilities connected to this utility

Operational and future projects are listed separately by status. Capacity is not energy consumed. No new serving relationships are inferred from map positions.

Price sources and missing evidence

The 2024 utility average comes from Jay Huggins / NREL OpenEI utility data, under CC BY 4.0. Values are converted from dollars to cents per kWh. It is a sales-revenue average, not an offered household tariff. The live state history comes from EIA.

Further attribution requires verified operational demand, multi-year utility prices, rate-case cost allocation, investment timing and a suitable comparison group. Missing dates, capacity and utility relationships remain explicitly unavailable. Read the research on correlation and causation.

Facility records: Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Snapshot captured 2026-11-02.