Editorial: Data center rate class will help curb Virginia’s energy cost burden

Editorial: Data center rate class will help curb Virginia’s energy cost burden

Dominion Energy customers, already feeling the effects of rising energy costs and other household expenses, will be zapped with a rate increase of about $13.50 a month over the next two years. But the good news emerging from a recent State Corporation Commission meeting is that a new, separate rate class will be created for power-hungry data centers, whose rapid growth is partly responsible for soaring prices. The SCC rejected a request from Dom…