A single hyperscale campus can ask for more electricity than a mid-sized city. Someone has to pay for the generation and transmission to serve it, and utilities have proposed spreading that cost across all ratepayers. This issue tracks votes on special large-load rate classes, cost-allocation rules, interconnection terms and who carries the risk if a promised campus never arrives.
A single hyperscale campus can ask for more electricity than a mid-sized city. Someone has to pay for the generation and transmission to serve it, and utilities have proposed spreading that cost across all ratepayers. This issue tracks votes on special large-load rate classes, cost-allocation rules, interconnection terms and who carries the risk if a promised campus never arrives.
“Voted Y on Virginia HB 1393, an omnibus Dominion Energy bill whose data center provision allocates capacity and distribution costs to the 25 MW customer class”