State regulators have ordered Dominion Virginia Power to give back $78.3 million to its customers because the utility made more than its authorized profit in 2009 and 2010.

Almost every Dominion Virginia Power customer who lost electricity as a result of Hurricane Irene had service back by Monday night, the company reported Wednesday.
 

Dominion Virginia Power announced today that it had restored service for more than 1.1 million customers of the 1.2 million who had lost power because of Hurricane Irene.

CHESAPEAKE City leaders offered no specifics on Friday about the potential impact of losing the city's biggest taxpayer, Dominion Virginia Power, if the company follows through on plans to close its coal plant by 2016.

CHESAPEAKE
Dominion Virginia Power expects to close its coal plant on the Elizabeth River's Southern Branch by 2016 because the costs to upgrade it to meet proposed new environmental standards is too high, according to a company filing Thursday with state regulators.

Humming air conditioners trying to fend off the heat Friday pushed electricity usage on Dominion Virginia Power’s system to a new record, the company announced Monday.

Dominion’s 2.4 million customers drew 20,061 megawatts of electricity between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Friday. In Hampton Roads, the temperature hit a record high of 102 degrees for that date.

Dominion Virginia Power filed requests to state regulators Monday for three rate increases that would add $12.76 to the average monthly bills of residential customers.

NORFOLK
Backup generators for parts of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital failed to work when a power outage swept the west side of Norfolk on Monday afternoon.

Dominion North Carolina Power announced today that it plans to harness the power of the southern sunshine from a solar power station to be built near Jackson, N.C.