Va. lawmakers worry about data centers. But they’re leery of acting.
Only a handful of General Assembly bills survive to address mushrooming demands for power and water from lucrative data ...
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As power demand surges, Va. lawmakers seem ready to add more energy storage to the grid
Lawmakers want to more than triple the amount of storage capacity Virginia’s two public utility companies must procure under ...
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Virginia Tech explores underground power lines to reduce outages
With the recent impacts of winter weather causing tens of thousands of people across Virginia to be without power for days, ...
EPA gives West Virginia authority to approve carbon underground storage
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is giving the state of West Virginia the authority to approve projects that will ...
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Richmond’s water plant had backup generators. But staff working during the storm could not turn them on.
Richmond’s DPU is investigating whether a brief loss of power at its water treatment plant may have led to a failure at the ...
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FBI seeks information on man who walked around inside John Amos Power Plant
WINFIELD, W.Va. — The FBI is looking for a man who walked into the John Amos Power Plant in Putnam County more than a year ...
US approves fast-tracking power plants in mid-Atlantic grid over complaints that it favors gas
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved a proposal from the operator of the congested mid-Atlantic grid to head ...
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Records show 'power bump' at Richmond water plant hours before outage reported to Dominion
CBS 6 spoke to a licensed professional engineer at the beginning of the water crisis and shared public records requests with him to get a better understanding of what may have happened.