On March 18, 2024, we issued an alert addressing Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s (VDEQ’s) recently proposed Virginia Stormwater Management Handbook, Version 1.0 (Handbook). The proposed Handbook is available...more
3/25/2024
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In January 2024, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ) released the Virginia Stormwater Management Handbook, Version 1.0 (Handbook). The Handbook provides guidance to implement construction stormwater...more
3/19/2024
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Water Quality
On March 3, 2023, the Virginia State Corporation Commission (the “SCC”) issued an Order (the “March 3 Order”) to (i) establish two working groups to consider distributed energy resources (DER) interconnection issues, (ii)...more
Although this year’s Virginia General Assembly was a short session, there was still a long to-do list and lots of activity involving several important pieces of proposed energy legislation...more
3/16/2023
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On May 24, 2022, the Virginia State Corporation Commission (the Commission) issued an Order establishing a proceeding to explore interconnection issues related to utility distributed energy resources (DER). As part of the...more
Conducting environmental due diligence and considering a project’s impact on the environment are essential in acquiring or permitting utility-scale solar projects in Virginia. This was underscored by the Virginia Department...more
4/11/2022
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Storm Water ,
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Virginia ,
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The Virginia General Assembly passed several important pieces of legislation affecting the solar and energy storage industry during its 2022 legislative session... join us on Thursday, March 31, from 11:00 – 11:30 am (ET) for...more
3/25/2022
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Virginia ,
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Effective as of January 1, 2021, the Virginia State Corporation Commission adopted Regulations Governing the Deployment of Energy Storage (the “Storage Rules”). The Storage Rules were promulgated pursuant to the Virginia...more
4/19/2021
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On July 29, 2020, the Virginia State Corporation Commission (the “Commission”) issued an Order (the “Order”) revising the Regulations Governing Interconnection of Small Electrical Generators, 20 VAC 5-314-10 et seq. (the...more
On June 29, 2020, the Virginia State Corporation Commission (the “Commission”) issued an Order initiating a proceeding to establish rules and regulations related to the deployment of energy storage (the “Order”).
As...more
As the number of solar projects has increased in Virginia, developers are confronting a more challenging environment in securing land use and zoning approval for their utility scale solar projects. Join Williams Mullen for...more
On September 5, 2018, the Virginia State Corporation Commission (the “Commission”) issued an order initiating a rulemaking proceeding (the “Order”) to determine whether, and the extent to which, any of the Regulations...more
On November 15, 2018, American Electric Power Service Corporation (as agent for Appalachian Power Company (“APCo”)) released a request for proposals (“RFP”) for up to 200 MWac of solar energy resources. The RFP was issued to...more
On November 2, 2018, the Virginia State Corporation Commission (the “Commission”) issued a final order (the “Order”) approving the petition of Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion”) for a prudency determination...more
On February 21, 2018, the Virginia State Corporation Commission (the “Commission”) approved the petition of Reynolds Group Holdings Inc. (“Reynolds”) to aggregate the electric energy loads of three subsidiaries, at six...more