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HOUSTON, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Audubon Chief Executive Officer Lee Beckett announced that Audubon Engineering has been named Owner's Engineer for the proposed Dominion Cove Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) construction project, located in Lusby, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay. Adding liquefaction capabilities will transform the existing facility into one providing bi-directional services -- the first LNG terminal that can export LNG from the U.S. East Coast. (Logo:...

- Hurricane season begins June 1; families encouraged to prepare now RICHMOND, Va., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hurricanes and severe storms are a staple of summer in Virginia. Dominion Virginia Power is making sure it's prepared for the June 1 start of hurricane season and urging its customers to get ready, too. The company works year-round with state and local authorities to make sure it can respond quickly to the extensive damage that major storms, especially hurricanes, can...

- $120,000 Dominion Foundation grant made the long-needed boat launch site possible RICHMOND, Va., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the most beautiful tidal stretches of the James River is more accessible to boaters today, thanks to a new boat ramp in Charles City County made possible by a $120,000 grant from the Dominion Foundation, the philanthropic organization for Dominion Resources Inc. Dominion, Charles City County and the Chesapeake Conservancy officials cut...

CARLTON, Wis., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion (NYSE: D) today shut down its 556-megawatt Kewaunee Power Station permanently, ending almost 40 years of nuclear-generated electricity at the station located about 35 miles southeast of Green Bay on Lake Michigan. Dominion announced last fall that it would close the station and decommission it because the company was unable to grow a Midwestern nuclear fleet to take advantages of economies of scale and Kewaunee's power purchase...

- Company cites expected higher fuel costs, increasing electricity demand RICHMOND, Va., May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Virginia Power asked state regulators today to approve the first fuel rate increase in two years as fuel prices and customer demand for electricity are projected to increase by July 2014. If approved by the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC), the monthly 1,000 kilowatt-hour bill for the typical Dominion residential customer would increase by...

- 14.9-megawatt, Connecticut facility will produce electricity for about 15,000 homes BRIDGEPORT, Conn., May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch today joined officials from Dominion (NYSE: D), one of the nation's largest energy companies, and FuelCell Energy Inc. (Nasdaq: FCEL) to break ground at the largest fuel cell power project in North America. Dominion Bridgeport Fuel Cell, which is being built downtown alongside Interstate 95 and...

- First installation in newly approved 30-megawatt Solar Partnership Program NORFOLK, Va., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Virginia Power has selected Old Dominion University to be the first participant in the company's Solar Partnership Program. More than 600 solar panels will be installed this summer on the roof of ODU's Student Recreation Center in the heart of the campus and generate 132 kilowatts for the electric grid. "This installation will pave the way for us to...

Cove Point to be Site of Air Products' First-Ever Major LNG Heat Exchanger to Operate in the U.S. LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD), which has shipped 100 liquefied natural gas (LNG) heat exchangers to some of the most remote natural gas fields around the world, today announced that one of its future orders will have a much shorter travel time to its destination. Air Products, the global leader in LNG technology and equipment, has...

- First-quarter 2013 operating earnings of 83 cents per share compared to guidance of 80 cents to 95 cents RICHMOND, Va., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion (NYSE: D) today announced unaudited reported earnings determined in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for the three months ended March 31, 2013, of $495 million ($0.86 per share), compared to $494 million ($0.86 per share) for the same period in 2012. Operating earnings for the three...

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion (NYSE: D) Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas F. Farrell II today discussed the U.S. shale gas boom and the opportunities presented by liquefied natural gas (LNG) exportation to lead the nation's return to economic health and restore its status as a global energy leader. Farrell gave the remarks at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy in Washington, D.C. "A superpower does not punch...