Dominion Virginia Power has submitted a proposal to Virginia regulator for the construction of a 1,358 MW CCGT power plant that would serve growing customer demand and replace electricity from ageing coal-fired power plants that are being retired for economic and environmental reasons.
If approved by the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC), the $1.3bn power plant would be built in Brunswick County and begin providing enough electricity for 340,000 homes by the spring of 2016. The Brunswick County Power Station is needed to replace more than 900 MW of coal-fired generation from the Chesapeake Energy Center and Yorktown Power Station, which will be retired by 2015 because new federal environmental regulations make them uneconomic to continue to operate. Likewise, more than 19,000 MW of coal-fired generation will be retired from 2011 through 2019 in PJM -the 13-state regional transmission organization- with most retiring by the end of 2015.