Virginia regulators order Dominion Energy to directly assign transmission costs to data centers

Virginia's top energy regulator has directed Dominion Energy, the state's largest electric utility, to craft a new tariff structure that would shift a greater share of high-voltage transmission costs onto data centers and other large-load customers. The order, issued by the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC), marks a significant step in an ongoing debate over who should pay for the grid upgrades needed to serve the booming data center industry. The directive came as part of Dominion's l