Later this year, Dominion expects to request the Virginia State Corporation Commission for permission to construct the Brunswick County power station.
With a generating capacity of about 1,300MW, the station is expected to be completed by 2016.
The power station is expected to be generated to power about 325,000 homes.
Output from the Brunswick County facility will replace the electricity generated by coal units at two eastern Virginia stations that are planned to be retired and would help meet customers’ growing demand for electricity.
Dominion chairman, president and CEO Thomas Farrell II said the Brunswick County site offers us an ideal location to generate electricity to serve Southside Virginia and Hampton Roads reliably and will help us close the gap of 4,000MW in additional peak demand that our customers are expected to need within the next decade.
If approved by state regulators, Brunswick County power station will be built on a 205-acre site on US Route 58 east of Lawrenceville.
Dominion already has received the necessary conditional use permits from the Brunswick County Board of Supervisors to build the station and has applied to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality for the air permit.
