Dominion’s Virginia customers are stuck with a FERC decision requiring them, but not the energy company’s North Carolina customers, to foot the bill for Virginia grid upgrade projects, the D.C. Circuit said Dec. 20.
Virginia power wholesalers who buy energy from Dominion challenged a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decision that allocated the costs of placing new Virginia transmission wires underground to Dominion’s Virginia customers, but not its North Carolina customers. But FERC’s decision was procedurally and substantively sound, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said.
There’s a “general principle that all of a utility’s customers should…
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