Buckle Up Prince William County: MORE Transmission Lines

Dear Coalition friends and supporters, We want to impress upon you, and our Supervisors, the magnitude of transmission lines and substations that are gathering like a storm at our collective doorstep.  All for one undeniable reason. The Dominion Representative in Monday’s “stakeholder” meeting confirmed it Read More …

Dominion’s Massive “Extension Cord” for Data Centers through Gainesville and Brentsville districts

Barely five years after dealing with citizen uproar over multiple route possibilities cutting through communities for the Haymarket Transmission line, Dominion Energy is at it again. Dominion submitted the Daves Store Transmission line route to the SCC on Feb. 9, 2024 — completely ignoring citizen input. Read More …

Newsweek: Want to Reduce Power Outages? Move Grids Underground, Says Energy Expert

Want to Reduce Power Outages? Move Grids Underground, Says Energy Expert (newsweek.com) By Adam Piore Published Feb 08, 2024 Extreme weather is revealing the vulnerability of the nation’s power grid—with increasingly catastrophic consequences. Downed power lines likely played a role in igniting both the deadly 2018 Read More …

Loudoun Now: Department of Energy Changes Could Pose More Challenges for Power Line Opponents

Department of Energy Changes Could Pose More Challenges for Power Line Opponents | News | loudounnow.com Hanna Pampaloni January 16, 2024 Powerlines cross Philip A. Bolen Park south of Leesburg. Loudoun Now   As Loudoun County residents organize to fight a power line project that Read More …

Bisnow: ‘We’re Not Even Close’: Data Center Power Crunch Gets Worse, With No End In Sight

‘We’re Not Even Close’: Data Center Power Crunch Gets Worse, With No End In Sight (bisnow.com) NationalData Center January 15, 2024 Dan Rabb, Data Centers  Data center developers are facing a worsening energy crisis that has escalated as utilities struggle to keep up with the needs of the Read More …

Financial Times: Resurgent US electricity demand sparks power grid warnings

Resurgent US electricity demand sparks power grid warnings (ft.com) “…The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a regulatory body, has sharply increased projections for peak power demand for the next decade, reversing steady or falling growth rates from previous years…” “…Jim Robb, NERC’s chief executive, told Read More …

Prince William Times: New high-voltage transmission line for Gainesville data centers is already facing pushback from activists

New high-voltage transmission line for Gainesville data centers is already facing pushback from activists | News | princewilliamtimes.com By Jill Palermo Times Staff Writer Jan 8, 2024 Updated 18 hrs ago A rendering of the I-66/U.S. 29 Technology Park, which was approved by the Prince William Board 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 …

dcist: Metro, Stadium Deal, Data Centers Among Northern Virginia Issues On The General Assembly Docket

Metro, Stadium Deal, Data Centers Among Northern Virginia Issues On The General Assembly Docket | DCist Virginia Issues On The General Assembly Docket Margaret Barthel Jan 4, 2024 The Virginia General Assembly session begins on Jan. 10. Tyrone Turner / DCist/WAMU Virginia lawmakers will head to Richmond Read More …

Virginia Business: Tax-rich data centers stir up county controversy

Data mining – Virginia Business Tax-rich data centers stir up county controversy PUBLISHED DECEMBER 31, 2023BY SABRINA MORENO Elena Schlossberg spent more than three years fighting the Prince William Digital Gateway, approved Dec. 13, 2023, by the county’s board of supervisors on a 3-4 vote. Photo by Read More …

Canary Media: Suddenly, US electricity demand is spiking. Can the grid keep up?

Suddenly, US electricity demand is spiking. Can the… | Canary Media Data centers, factories, heat pumps and EVs are putting increasing stress on a grid that isn’t growing fast enough, new data shows. By Jeff St. John 20 December 2023   A recently constructed Meta data center in 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 …

Loudoun Now: Western Loudoun Power Line Proposal Stirs New Community Concerns

Western Loudoun Power Line Proposal Stirs New Community Concerns | News | loudounnow.com Hanna Pampaloni Nov 27, 2023 A graphic created by the Piedmont Environmental Council shows, in red, new transmission line corridors under consideration by regulators to meet the power demand of data centers in Read More …