The Atlantic Coast Pipeline threatens Virginia’s economy and clean-energy jobs

Dominion Energy’s effort to undermine economic findings that raise fundamental questions about its proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline ran into a major snag. And for good reason. The State Corporation Commission quashed the utility’s attempt to suppress analysis showing that its pipeline venture would add as much as $2.3 billion to Virginians’ electricity bills — an analysis that used the company’s own data.

Now that we have a clearer picture at the SCC of the pipeline’s cost to electricity ratepayers, Virginia is faced with a fundamental economic choice: Are we going to invest more in the cost-increasing fossil fuels of the past century? Or are we going to make Virginia a more business-friendly place for lower-cost, cleaner renewable energy?

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