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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.
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All published briefs
4 published
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.
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.