The Coalition to Protect Prince William County
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Dear neighbors, friends, and supporters! The quote by Lao Tzu, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step,” encapsulates an essential and profound truth about life – and reversing the tide on data center sprawl. Finally, the Loudoun Board of Supervisors reacted to
Amid record high energy demand, America is running out of electricity – The Washington Post Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power (msn.com) AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up. Story
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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
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.
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
AI Boom Could Slow U.S. Clean Grid Ambitions | OilPrice.com By Tsvetana Paraskova – Jan 26, 2024, 6:00 PM CST AI data centers have become a significant burden for utilities. Some utilities in the eastern and southern parts of the U.S. are proposing build-outs of new natural
These Are The 50 Top Power-Consuming Data-Center Markets In The World | ZeroHedge These Are The 50 Top Power-Consuming Data-Center Markets In The World BY TYLER DURDEN TUESDAY, JAN 16, 2024 – 05:45 AM We live in an information-abundant digital world, where data is the
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
‘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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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