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Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind

Our Clean Energy Future

Construction on Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW), the largest offshore wind project in the United States, is progressing on schedule. Onshore construction for transmission infrastructure began in late 2023, and offshore construction commenced in early 2024.

Anchored in Hampton Roads, CVOW is transforming the local economy and beyond by attracting economic development opportunities to create hundreds of good-paying clean energy jobs, millions in tax revenues and hundreds of millions in economic benefits annually.

Once complete, CVOW will generate enough energy to power up to 660,000 homes, and it will add to our diverse energy mix, which is essential for energy security, reliability and lowering fuel costs.

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    176 offshore wind turbines

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    660,000 homes powered

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    2027 expected completion

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Delivering on Our Mission

We are committed to safely providing an all-of-the-above mix of power generation sources to meet rising power demand, including offshore wind, to provide our customers with reliable, affordable and increasingly clean energy.

CVOW is a 2.6-gigawatt project. Its 176 offshore wind turbines will generate enough carbon-free, renewable energy to power up to 660,000 homes. Harnessing the power of the wind means this project has expected fuel savings of $3 billion for customers during the project's first decade of operations.

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Monopile installation in the CVOW lease area, and a wind turbine in the background.

Jobs for Today and Tomorrow

More than 800 Virginia-based workers are engaged on the project or with other businesses supporting CVOW. To support ongoing operations and maintenance, more than 1,000 local jobs will be needed.

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Protecting What Matters

We are committed to meeting the energy needs of our customers in an environmentally conscious manner. Protecting natural and cultural resources is our duty as a responsible corporate citizen.

This is why we are taking extensive precautions to safeguard sensitive marine species, like the North Atlantic right whale.

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Fish explore the artificial reef created at the base of the CVOW turbines

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Dominion Energy’s major Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is now sending surges of power to the grid, after its first commercial turbine was switched on Monday. It is the largest offshore wind project in America.

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With the certainty that state oversight and the Clean Economy Act gave, Dominion was able to nail down firm contracts from suppliers. “The fact that we have a regulated project, and the fact that the Clean Economy Act set those targets, gave us the confidence to go to the vendors and say this is what we need on this schedule,” said Bob Blue, Dominion Energy's chair, president and chief executive officer.

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The project is also at the heart of Virginia’s all-of-the-above approach to energy production, which aims to make energy cheap and plentiful by employing fossil fuels, nuclear and growing green energy, said Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who attended the event.

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The federal government is pouring money into alternative energy projects, including a big wind farm planned off the coast of Virginia.

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