Power · Oct 22, 2026, 07:48
Dominion Wins Local Approval for 3-GW Cumberland Gas Plant in Virginia
Cumberland County supervisors voted 3-1 for Dominion Energy's 3,000-MW gas plant. Construction targets 2029; state air-permit and SCC approvals are still needed.
Key facts from POWER Magazine's report on the October 20 vote.
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Cumberland County supervisors in Virginia voted 3-1 on October 20 to approve Dominion Energy's Cumberland Energy Center, a 3,000-MW gas-fired power station, according to POWER Magazine. The vote followed hours of public comment and a planning commission recommendation for approval in August.
Cumberland would be more than three times the size of Dominion's 944 MW Chesterfield plant.
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Dominion has said the plant would use two 2-on-1 combined-cycle gas units to produce about 3 GW of baseload power, on about 150 acres off Duncan Store Road, about an hour west of Richmond. The company is targeting 2029 to begin construction and has called it a multi-billion-dollar project without giving a cost, POWER reports. A Dominion spokesperson, Jeremy Slayton, said the company would keep engaging with the community.
The approval is local only. POWER says the project still needs an air permit from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and approval from the State Corporation Commission. It is the largest of Dominion's gas plans cited in the report: the Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center, approved last year, is 944 MW and costs $1.47 billion. Cumberland is expected to cost more than Chesterfield, a Dominion spokesperson confirmed earlier this year.