The matter before the Virginia State Corporation Commission involving a request by NextEra Energy Transmission Virginia Inc. to build electric transmission facilities in Frederick County has a public hearing on the schedule for next month.
This one is the case that the commissioner of the SCC, Kelsey Bagot, a former senior attorney at NextEra Energy, has recused herself from having a vote on, because Bagot worked on that project in her time at the company.
Bagot worked at NextEra Energy from 2022-2024 before being elected to the SCC by the General Assembly.
Bagot notified the General Assembly by letter this week that she will not be recusing herself from the SCC review of the proposed $67 billion NextEra Energy-Dominion Energy merger, saying that after consulting with independent counsel, “I have not found it necessary to issue a notification of recusal.”
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The matter that will be the focus of the Sept. 16 public hearing at James Wood High School in Winchester involves the proposed Mid-Atlantic Resiliency Link, a 107.5-mile 500-kilovolt electric transmission line that would run from Pennsylvania through West Virginia and Maryland to a connection point in Northern Virginia, to feed electricity demand to our glut of hyperscale data centers.
Our cluster of oversized data centers is the focus of NextEra Energy’s interest in Dominion Energy.
This stuff, it’s all related.
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