2024 Data Center Legislation

Senate Bills   SB191 (Electric utilities; data center demand, allocation of costs among customer classes): https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB191 – Senator Suhas Subramanyam   SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Electric utilities; data center demand; allocation of costs among customer classes. Directs the State Corporation Commission to ensure that any plan, petition, Read More …

MEDIA ALERT!  Press Conference – Friday, Jan 12 – 1:30 PM

PRESS CONFERENCE The Coalition to Protect Prince William County, with American Battlefield Trust and other plaintiffs, will be holding a press conference at 1:30 pm on Friday, January 12, 2024 to discuss their legal action on the Digital Gateway Project as follow up to the December 11, Read More …

DEMAND This Newest Transmission Line Go Underground – And Customers Pay!

We warned Supervisors Ann Wheeler, Kenny Boddye, Andrea Bailey, Victor Angry, and Margaret Franklin that data center development had impacts not only to the residents nearby, with industrialization of their communities, but that EVERY Dominion Energy rate payer would be responsible for covering ALL the power Read More …

Don’t Miss THIS Holiday Greeting!

Dear Supporters, Happy Hannukah, Merry Christmas, and just an overall Happy Holidays! On December 11th, the Coalition with their legal counsel, Chap Petersen, an experienced and successful litigator who also served in the Virginia State Senate for 16 years, held a press conference. Press Conference Digital Read More …

Chap Petersen: “The Miracle of Manassas”

Dear Friends and Virginians: It was 161 years ago that the Union and Confederate armies clashed at the battle of Second Manassas.  Since that time, the battlefield — the site of two major Civil War engagements – has remained uncluttered and undeveloped, a living monument Read More …

Coalition letter from Counsel to Wheeler: Digital Gateway Notification Violation

The below letter was sent at 11 AM on December 11, 2023 to the following: Chair Ann Wheeler; Supervisors Franklin, Bailey, Boddye, Angry, Weir, Lawson, Vega; Clerk of the BOCS; Senator-Elect Roem, Governor Youngkin, US Senators Kaine and Warner, and US Congresswoman Wexton. Chap Petersen, Read More …

Letters to PJM regarding RTEP 2022 Window 3 proposed solution

LETTERS TO PJM REGARDING THE 2022 WINDOW 3 RECOMMENDED SOLUTION: As of 12/1/23 As of 12/3/23 As of 12/4/23 As of 12/5/23 20231128-opsi-letter-re-grid-reliability.ashx (pjm.com) 20231205-pjm-board-response-to-sierra-club-letter-regarding-pjm-interconnections-role-in-the-maryland-energy-transition.ashx 20231207 Talen Energy response to PJM letter to Sierra Club Md Office of People’s Counsel letter regarding PJM 2022 Window Read More …

The Arc of Justice

Dear Supporters, We have a few important announcements. *************************************** Nearly a decade ago the Coalition to Protect PWC was formed to protect our homes, our property, our small businesses, our natural and cultural resources, and our pocketbooks from the power demands required by the data Read More …

Karen Sheehan Letter to PJM

December 4, 2023 VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL   The PJM Board of Managers Mark Takahashi, Chairman Manu Asthana, PJM President and CEO PJM Interconnection L.L.C. 2750 Monroe Boulevard Audubon, Pennsylvania 19408   RE:  PJM 2022 Window 3 I request the PJM Board of Managers reject the Read More …

Thanksgiving is ALL about family and community

Dear Supporters, Holidays like Thanksgiving can get stressful and complicated; wondering how to fit in the meal-making, the cleaning, the perfect turkey, the perfect pumpkin pie. For so many in the community that have had their lives turned upside down and inside out – your participation HAS made a Read More …

ACTION ALERT – Public Hearing Prince William Digital Gateway Wed, Nov 8th

QTS Data Centers and Compass Datacenters are not experiencing a PR problem, they are experiencing a crisis of common decency. The data center industry, as a whole, can no longer continue their “business as usual” model. The Digital Gateway project has awakened The People, and Read More …