A Dominion Energy plan that would more than double electricity output could cut the utility’s carbon emissions from current levels as it proposes to more than double solar and wind generation, even as it also calls for a 70% increase in natural gas-fired generators, a Richmond Times-Dispatch analysis found.
The company’s latest 15-year plan, released this month, is its second “integrated resource plan” in a row that says it will not be able to retire fossil fuel plants by the 2045 deadline set in the Virginia Clean Economy Act if it is to satisfy the law’s requirement that it provides a reliable source of electricity.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
