On a recent summer day, under blue skies, a 272-feet tall, 31-feet wide, 1,500-ton steel cylinder was being pushed into the ocean floor 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach. The process will be repeated for months as Dominion Energy builds the country’s largest offshore wind project.
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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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