Investor-Owned Utilities Generating or Distributing Electricity in Virginia

Chesterfield coal-fired power plant

Links

• Fact Sheet and financial reports (for investors)
  • the 1999 annual report notes that the company has 3.9 million retail customers (2.1 million electric, 1.8 million natural gas) in a market of 52 million households. There's room for growth in a deregulated economy, and the company has "set a goal of 15 percent or better annual total return in share appreciation plus quarterly dividends"
• Dominion Generation (power production subsidiary)
• Virginia Power (power distribution subsidiary)

• Community Profiler (example: Grundy in Buchanan County, Virginia
• building sites database, including empty ("shell") buildings ready for equipment and people...
• map showing portion of Virginia served by AEP
• map showing location of power plants (in .PDF format)
  • coal-fired: Clinch River, Glen Lyn (flow chart in .PDF format of power plant operations)
  • hydro: Buck, Byllesby, Claytor, Leesville, Niagara, Reusens, Smith Mountain (pumped storage),
• hyropower facility statistics
• AEP System Environmental Performance Report 1997-1998 (in .PDF format)
• fiber-optic telecommunications network in Virginia
• annual report

PEPCO is selling its power plants and concentrating on delivery of services - clearly using a different business model than Dominion Power, which has been purchasing generating facilities.

Delmarva Power & Light

Eastern Shore residents can order not just electricity from Delmarva Power & Light, but also natural gas and telecommunications services from a new company called Conectiv.