Aug 03, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Dominion Energy, Virginia's primary electric utility, has added more than 5GW of contracted data center load to its pipeline since the end of last year. During its Q2 earnings call, the company said the increase represents an 11% rise. Previously, in its Q4 earnings report released in February, Dominion reported more than 48GW of contracted data center load as of December 2025, up from approximately 47GW in September.
Steven Ridge, Dominion Energy's executive vice president and CFO, said the company continues to see strong and sustained demand from its data center customers. The utility also addressed concerns over grid reliability after a large amount of data center load abruptly disconnected from the PJM grid in Northern Virginia last month.
“We did have a transmission line that experienced a fault last week that did go out of service. These are rare on our reliable grid, but they do occasionally occur,” said Ed Baine, EVP and chief of utilities at Dominion. “We do expect, typically, the data centers would ride through these momentary events without shifting to backup power, but they didn’t in this case.”
“We’ve been sharing information and will continue to do so and implement lessons learned. We don’t feel like there are significant investments that need to be made because we’ve been doing that in the grid, but we do believe there will continue to be other mitigating items that we’ll implement,” he added.
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