The chronicle
When the public record changes — a PJM clearance, a board vote, an IRP filing — we publish a short brief. AI drafts; a human edits and approves. Every brief cites the source documents it was built from.
All published briefs
Why Community Trust Is Becoming Infrastructure's New Bottleneck
Across Virginia, projects aren't failing because of technology or funding — they're failing because of trust.
Spotsylvania's solar fights are the canary for distributed capacity
Utility-scale solar applications in several Virginia counties keep dying — and that's a problem for every IRP that depends on them.
Dominion's 2024 IRP says the quiet part: data-center load is the plan
For the first time, the utility's own filing treats data-center demand growth as a base-case planning assumption, not a scenario.
Prince William's Digital Gateway lands in a tighter PJM
PWC's 2,100-acre rezoning was approved in late 2023. The grid it must connect to in 2026 is materially harder to reach.
Loudoun keeps testing what "by-right" really means
A multi-year debate over data-center noise and zoning overlays is steadily narrowing what was once a fully by-right industry — without ever banning it.