- Utility doubles down on renewables: Dominion Energy has launched a new request for proposals (RFP) seeking solar, wind, and battery projects in Virginia and North Carolina. Its subsidiaries are exclusively looking for power purchase agreements (PPAs) with new photovoltaic solar, onshore wind, and energy storage installations renewableenergyworld.com. This move comes as the bulk of new U.S. power capacity in 2025 (about 90%) is from renewables renewableenergyworld.com, underscoring a broader clean energy boom.
- Five project categories targeted: The RFP invites bids for five types of projects: large utility-scale solar farms (>3 MW); smaller distributed solar (<3 MW); solar paired with storage; onshore wind (with or without storage); and stand-alone battery storage renewableenergyworld.com. Dominion will consider facilities anywhere in VA or NC, but distributed projects under 3 MW must be within Dominion’s service territory to provide local grid benefits renewableenergyworld.com. The utility even encourages proposals on brownfield sites like old landfills or industrial plots renewableenergyworld.com – turning yesterday’s liabilities into tomorrow’s clean power assets.
- Timeline and requirements: Interested developers must register intent to bid by Jan. 20, 2026 and sign a confidentiality agreement renewableenergyworld.com. Final proposals are due by Feb. 9, 2026 renewableenergyworld.com. By openly courting third-party projects through PPAs (rather than building all projects itself), Dominion aims to tap market innovation and speed. The PPAs will support customers’ future energy needs as outlined in Dominion’s latest Integrated Resource Plan renewableenergyworld.com, while also creating local jobs, community investment, and new tax revenue in host localities 1 .
- Driving forces – policy and economics: Dominion’s big solar-and-storage push aligns with Virginia’s Clean Economy Act (VCEA) mandates and the utility’s pledge of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 renewableenergyworld.com. State law deems 16,100 MW of new solar and onshore wind and 2,700 MW of storage to be in the public interest by 2035, pressuring Dominion to rapidly expand clean generation. At the same time, renewables make economic sense: they are now the fastest-to-build and often cheapest option for new power renewableenergyworld.com. Even without federal subsidies, solar, wind, and batteries are favored to meet surging electricity demand (driven heavily by energy-hungry data centers) 2
Dominion Energy Bets Big on Solar & Storage in 2025 – Even as Critics Cry “Scam”
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