On Friday, July 31, the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) issued a major ruling that, going forward, will help protect consumers’ pocketbooks from the impacts of the data center boom and related energy infrastructure buildout in Virginia.
Our Region
PEC focuses on nine counties and one city in the northern Piedmont of Virginia: Albemarle, Charlottesville, Clarke, Culpeper, Fauquier, Greene, Loudoun, Madison, Orange, and Rappahannock.
We also team with local organizations to promote thriving communities and healthy natural resources in a much larger region, including the Shenandoah Valley, the central Piedmont, and the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Corridor. In addition, we are proud to serve as fiscal sponsor of the Coalition for Smarter Growth, an organization that focuses on land use and policy in the greater Washington D.C. area.
Summer Orange County Updates
The Gordonsville Community Pool in Verling Park is open for its first full summer season + other Orange County summer updates.
Gigaland: New Packaging, Same Harmful Impacts
Gigaland is back with its latest proposal, renamed Remington Digital Campus. While the new proposal represents a smaller footprint (a relative term when talking about millions of square feet) for its six data center buildings, the meaningful changes stop there.
New Study Examines Potential Air Quality and Public Health Impacts of Remington Data Center’s Proposed Use of Natural Gas Turbines
The developer of Remington Technology Park data center campus, PointOne, proposed building an onsite power plant of 13 gas turbines in early 2026. In April 2026, PEC decided to commission a study of the cumulative impacts due to the proximity of this site to the adjacent Meadows of Remington residential neighborhood and two existing power plants.
Another Electric Super-Highway Proposed to Serve Data Centers
This project would consist of 260 miles of new 765-kilovolt (kV) transmission lines connecting the John Amos coal plant in Putnam County, West Virginia (the location of a well-known coal-fired power plant), and the Rocky Point substation in Frederick County, Maryland.
Data Centers in Loudoun: A Primer
Reforms needed and questions the county should answer.
Clarke County Rural Lands Plan
The Clarke County Planning Staff have completed the draft of the new Rural Lands Plan. Now the Planning Commission has set a public hearing for Friday, July 10
Remington Tech Park Developer Plans a Permanent Gas Fuel Cell Power Plant
The Remington Tech Park data center campus developer, PointOne, has proposed an onsite power plant that would rely on natural gas fuel cells. The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hear the application on July 9 and we think it should defer its decision.
Send SCC Comments: Expanded Southwest Mountains Transmission Line
The Charlottesville-Gordonsville transmission line expansion project is directly driven by the 26 data center requests in Louisa and Culpeper counties that Dominion has received over the last five years.
Old Mills Trail Extension: Long-Time Greenway Vision Coming into View
Albemarle is beginning the first phase of a planned project to extend the Old Mills Trail four miles downstream. There it will eventually connect to a future park at Milton Landing and an existing greenway in Glenmore.