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With the increase of data center load, how does it affect the demand for transmission, substations, and power generation investments.

The company expects to deploy more than $40 billion in capital over the next five years to support one of the highest projected growth rates of any utility and enable its “all-of-the-above” approach to resource adequacy, ensure reliable and increasingly clean energy supplies, and continue to maintain its assets. Slides 8 through 10 of the presentation discussed at the 2025 IRP Update Stakeholder Meeting regarding Modeling held on August 27th, including information regarding the load forecast. In addition, Section 2.1 and Appendix 2A of the 2024 IRP provide extensive information on the load forecast, load growth, and the data center contribution to that load growth, as well as extensive written and verbal testimony from the 2024 IRP proceeding which is available on the State Corporation Commission website. 

Other Stakeholder Questions and Answers

• How much of the load forecast increase from 2024 to 2025 is for data centers and how is the data center load split between the Dominion Load Serving Entity (LSE) and other LSEs? Where in VA is the data center load increasing? What process does Dominion use for load requests, and how does that eliminate double counting in the load requests?
• For load forecasts, why are data centers subtracted from the PJM forecast?