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- Pilot program helps offset costs for eligible customers installing solar power systems RICHMOND, Va., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Virginia Power begins accepting online applications tomorrow for the company's Solar Purchase Program, which will help eligible customers offset the cost of adding solar power to their homes and properties while increasing solar generation in Virginia. "We have seen a growing interest from customers since we announced this program last...

-- Power restored to 70 percent of 283,000 customers affected by severe windstorm RICHMOND, Va., June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Virginia Power crews are repairing damage to return electrical service to more than 283,000 customers affected by a severe windstorm Thursday evening. As of noon today, crews had restored power to more than 70 percent of the customers affected by the storm. Work will continue around the clock until power has been...

-- Company paid $142 million in 2012, up $10 million from previous year RICHMOND, Va., May 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Virginia Power paid nearly $142 million in taxes to cities, counties and towns in Virginia in 2012, approximately $10 million more than in 2011. The taxes are assessed annually on all of the company's real estate, property and power-related assets, including buildings, power stations, transmission and distribution power lines, substations and other...

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...