Moving Virginia Business Forward

Virginia's creation of new jobs and technologies over the past decade and a half is one of America's great economic development success stories. Today, Northern Virginia is considered one of the very best places in the U.S. to live and work. The region is focused on technology, good jobs and a high quality of life.

To maintain that reputation, we cannot fall back on old-world ways of doing things. If we don�t move forward, it will cost us in our pocketbooks, on the bottom line and in how we are perceived as an economic region.

We need to show that Virginia will be a model in this new era and that its business community will lead on energy and the environment.

  • Dominion Power is not innovative. The company consistently ranks at the bottom of the pack in terms of customer satisfaction and in its policies on energy and the environment. Stuck on an old industrial model, Dominion Power is one of the nation�s largest operators of coal-fired generating plants and one of the biggest contributors to carbon emissions in our region. A forward-thinking Virginia needs an electric utility that�s focused on the future, not rooted in the past.
  • Dominion Power is proposing a high-cost, high-carbon approach to energy needs. We are concerned about the potential impact that the transmission line will have on the utility rates paid by Northern Virginia businesses and homes. Not only is a massive corridor of 15-story high towers enormously expensive. Even more worrisome is the costs of building new coal-fired plants and expected new carbon regulation.
  • Dominion Power has run a misleading public campaign aimed especially at Northern Virginia�s business community. The company has threatened blackouts in 2011 if its transmission line isn�t built. That�s simply not true. It claims the transmission line is for Northern Virginia while at least 75 percent of the power would go out-of-state. And Dominion Power insists that this proposed line �is the only way�, when numerous alternatives exist already. Virginia deserves an honest and open public dialogue on this issue.